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Descriptions o- u'ir^i. Piv.mag-e of Cer¬ 
tain North Am, Bbs. Wm.Brewster. 
38. Myiodioctes canadensis. 
First plumage: female. Remiges, rectrices, etc., similar to the adults. 
Rest of the upper parts, including wing-coverts and sides of head, uniform 
deep dull cinnamon; the greater coverts tipped with fulvous. Throat, 
breast, and sides very light cinnamon, tinged with olive. Anal and ab¬ 
dominal regions pale sulphur-vellow. No conspicuous spots, stripes, or 
markings anywhere. From a specimen in my collection shot at Upton, 
Me., August 4, 1874. This bird was so young as to be scarcely able to fly, 
and, with the rest of the brood, was attended by the female parent. 
Adult in autumn: male. Similar to adult in spring, but with the yel¬ 
low of the under parts much more intense, and the black spotting on the 
breast slightly clouded by the yellow tipping of the overlapping feathers. 
From a specimen in my collection shot at Upton, Me., August 29, 1874. 
Young in autumn: male. Pileuni and back greenish-olive ; nape and 
rump bluish-ash, slightly tinged with olive. Centres of a few feathers on 
the forehead and cheeks, with a continuous line along the side of the neck 
to the breast, dusky-black. A broad band of very small spots (each one 
not more than one quarter of the size of those exhibited in the adult 
plumage) across the upper part of the breast black. Otherwise similar to 
the adult. In “ History of Birds of North America,” Yol. I. p. 320, Mr. 
Itidgway says, “In the young [these spots] are obsolete.” 
Bull. N.0.0, 8 t April, 1878. p. 60-6/. 
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