Descriptions of First Plumage of Cer¬ 
tain North, Am. Bbs. Wm.Brewster. 
2. Turdus pallasi. 
First plumage: female. Remiges and rectrices as in adult, but darker 
and duller; rump and tail-coverts bright rusty-yellow; rest of upper 
parts, including wing-coverts, dark reddish-brown, each feather with a 
central tear-shaped spot of golden-yellow : entire under parts rich buff, 
fading to soiled white on abdomen and anal region ; each feather on jugu- 
lum and breast broadly tipped with dull black, so broadly, indeed, that 
this color covers nearly four fifths of the parts where it occurs; rest of 
under parts, with exception of abdomen and crissum, which with the 
central region of the throat are immaculate, crossed transversely with 
lines of dull black. From a specimen in my collection shot at Upton, 
Me., June 20, 1873. This bird was very young, — scarcely able to fly, 
in fact, — yet the color of the rectrices is sufficiently characteristic to sepa¬ 
rate it at once from the corresponding stage of T. swainsoni, which it 
otherwise closely resembles. Another specimen of apparently nearly 
the same age, taken at Rye Beach, N. H., July 25, 1872, differs in having 
a decided reddish or rusty wash over the entire plumage, and by the spots 
on the breast being brownish instead of black. 
Bull. N.Q.Q, 3, Jan. .1878. p, /!-!$■ 
