Descriptions of First Plumage of Cer- 
tain North Am, Bbs. Wha. Brewster. 
79. Icterus baltimore. 
First plumage : Top of head, nape, and interscapular region brownish- 
olive ; wing-bands pale fulvous ; rump, breast, anal region, and crissum 
olivaceous-yellow ; throat dull yellow ; abdomen pale buffy-yellow ; 
patches of ash on the sides. From a specimen in my collection shot in 
Cambridge, Mass., July 18, 1874. Autumnal adults have the orange-red 
richer and clearer than in spring, and the wing-quills much more broadly 
and conspicuously edged with white. Neither wing nor tail feathers are 
changed during the first moult. 
Bull. N.O.C. 3, Oct., 1878, p. / 
