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1. A. maritima. Breeding dress: Pileum streaked with yellowish- 
gray, or grayish- white ; scapulars and interscapulars irregularly spotted 
and indented with dull buff, or whitish, and bordered terminally with 
white; foreneck and jugulum distinctly streaked with dusky, the breast 
dull grayish, everywhere spotted with darker. Winter dress : Back and 
scapulars sooty black strongly glossed with purplish, the feathers bordered 
terminally with dark plumbeous-gray ; jugulum uniform mouse-gray, or 
brownish plumbeous. Young, first plumage : Scapulars, interscapulars, and 
wing-coverts bordered with pale grayish-buff, with little or none of rusty. 
Chick : Above hair-brown, lighter and grayer on the nape, the brown 
irregularly marbled with black, the wings, back, and rump thickly be- 
spangled with white downy flecks ; head grayish-white, tinged with ful- 
vous, variously marked with black, the lores having two distinct longitu- 
dinal, nearly parallel streaks ; lower parts grayish-white, without fulvous 
tinge. Average measurements of 13 adults: Wing, 5.06; culmen, 1.20; 
tarsus, 0.99; middle toe, 0.90. Hub., Northeastern North America, 
Europe, etc. 
Bull, N. 0.0, 5, July, 1880, p, / &£ ■ 
