Descriptions of First Plumage of Cer- 
tain North Am, Bbs. Wm. Brewster. 
76. Pipilo erythrophthalmus. 
First plumage : male. Above dull reddish-olive, the feathers of the 
interscapular region with dusky brown centres. Greater wing-coverts 
and outer edges of two inner tertiaries, deep fulvous. Beneath pale red- 
dish-brown, deepest upon sides and crissum, shading into brownish- white 
upon the abdomen, thickly spotted and streaked everywhere (excepting 
on a small space upon the abdomen) with dull black. From a specimen 
in my collection shot in Cambridge, Mass., June 21, 1874. In a large 
series of young in first plumage much individual variation occurs. Some 
specimens are thickly and finely streaked beneath with dull chestnut in 
place of black, while the upper parts are dull rufous ; others, taken during 
the progress of the first moult, exhibit nearly every conceivable variation 
of marking in reddish-brown, chestnut, white, and black. 
£uH.N.O.C, 3, July, 1878. p. /££ . 
Albinistic Plnmages. B. Deane. 
16. Pipilo erythrophthalmus. Towhee Bunting. — I am indebted 
to Mr. L. M. Loomis for description of a partial albino “ Chewink,” which 
he shot in Chester, S. C., in 1878. “ Above black, heavily mottled with 
white, the white predominating on the head, cervix, rump, and upper tail- 
coverts; below, breast and neck black, mottled with white, the former with 
a large white crescent ; remaining under-parts normal ; white on the pri- 
maries greatly extended, equalling one and one half inches in length ; 
white on the tail of greater extent than in normal examples.” 
Ball. N. O.O. 5, Jan,, 1880, p. 28 
Pipilo erythrophtiialmus with Spotted Scapulars. — Mr. P. L. 
Jouy, of Washington, D. C., submits to my inspection an interesting speci- 
men of the Eastern Towhee, shot May 4, 1875, in the District of Colum- 
bia, and requests me to make a note of its peculiarities for publication in 
the Bulletin. The outer scapulars are distinctly and strongly marked, 
near the end of the outer webs, with streaks of pure white ; there is much 
concealed white in the black of the throat ; and in other respects, as the 
extent of white on the primaries and lateral tail-feathers, the specimen 
resembles P. “ arcticus.” Nothing is wanting, in fact, to make it a typical 
“ arcticus ” but the spots on the wing-coverts. Another specimen, shot 
by the same gentleman in the same locality, also shows a trace of white 
on the scapulars. Examples intermediate between erythrophthalmus and 
“ arcticus ” have long since been noted by Baird, myself, and others, but 
all such hitherto known, so far as I am aware, have been from localities 
where the respective habitats of the two forms adjoin. The present case 
offers additional and very strong evidence against the specific distinction 
claimed for P. “ arcticus.” — Elliott Coues, W ashington, D. C. 
[A considerable proportion of the specimens of P. erythrophthalmus taken 
by me in 1871, in the vicinity of Leavenworth, Kan. (mainly in East 
Leavenworth, Mo.), showed white spots on the scapulars and more white 
on the wings than eastern examples, thus exhibiting a decided tendency 
toward the characters of P. “ arcticus,” the eastern limit of the range of 
which, in its typical aspect, is the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains in 
Colorado, some six hundred miles west of Leavenworth. — J. A. Allen.] 
*uU. N.O.G, 3 t Jan., 1878. p, V/ “ 
Of those already recorded, we have perfect albino specimens of the 
Chewink ( Pipilo erythrophthalmiis)j 
BuliN.O.O, 8,ApU. 1883. p. / 2.6 . 
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