Descriptions of First Plumage of Cer- 
tain North Am, Bbs. Wm. Brewster, 
83. Sayornis fuscus. 
First plumage : female. Crown and nape dark sooty-brown. Rest of 
upper parts brownish-olive, shading into reddish-olive on the rump. 
Wing-bands and tips of rectrices ferruginous ; secondaries edged with 
yellowish-olive. Throat, breast, and sides olivaceous-drab, darkest on 
sides of breast. Abdominal and anal regions soiled white, with a yellow- 
ish tinge. From a specimen in my collection taken at Cambridge, Mass 
July 13, 1874. 
PuliN.O.O, 3, Oct. , 1878, p, /7^-/77- 
