90. Chordeiles virginianus. 
reddish fawn-color and pale rusty. All the feathers are tipped, edged, a 
barred with the lighter colors, the black appearing for the most part 
subterminal spots or blotches. Thf> nrimnrioa • j. .... 
First plumage. Above dull black, irregularly marbled everywhere with 
ddish fawn-color and pale rusty. All the feathers are tipped, edged, and 
irred with the lighter colors, the black appearing for the most part in 
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spots or blotches. The primaries (which are but just sprout- 
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mg) are black, broadly tipped with pale rusty. Under parts clothed 
thickly with fluffy whitish down, beneath which, on the breast and sides, 
true feathers of a dull white barred with dark brown are beginning to 
appear. From a specimen in the cabinet of Mr. N. C. Brown, taken at 
Deerrng, Me., June 29, 1875. It seems probable that young of this species 
— and perhaps of the whole family, like those of the Tetraonidce and some 
others — pass through a stage of plumage previous to the usual primal 
one. . The specimen above described is, strictly speaking, in process of 
transition between the two, and still retains patches of the soft whitish 
down which must have constituted its entire covering at an earlier period. 
Bull, N.O.C. 3, Oct., 1878, p, ?J$, 
