Uad«scri bed First Plumages, Brewster 
116. iEgialitis meloda. 
A utumnal plumage : female. Differs from the adult in having the black 
frontal crescent entirely wanting, the feathers upon the crown and back 
with ashy-brown centres, a broad white collar around the neck behind, 
and the band across the breast brownish or ashy-plumbeous, instead of 
black. From a specimen in my collection obtained at Nantucket, Mass., 
September 22, 1875. Mr. Kidgway’s western variety of this species cannot 
possibly be maintained. A large proportion of our New England Coast 
specimens have the breast band continuous, and in several that I have 
examined it is as brpadly so as in the supposed variety eircumcincta. 
Bull, N, 0.0. 4, Jan., 18, 9 , p. yy . 
