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U. S. P. R R. EXP. AND SURVEYS—ZOOLOGY—GENERAL REPORT. 
the head, the neck behind, back, rump, and tail light rufous or cinnamon color. Under parts generally a paler shade of the 
same rufous as the back, frequently nearly white, but sometimes as dark as the upper parts, and always with more or less 
numerous circular or oblong spots of black. Quills brownish black, with white bars on their inner webs. Tail tipped with 
white, frequently tinged with rufous and with a broad subterminal band of black, outer frequently white, tinged with ashy and 
barred with black. Bill light blue, legs yellow. Back generally with transverse stripes of b'ack, but frequently with very 
few, or entirely without ; rufous spot on the head, variable in size, and sometimes wanting. 
Younger mal ).—Upper parts as above ; wing coverts, and tail ferruginous red, with numerous transverse bands of brownish 
black. Under parts with numerous longitudinal stripes, and on the sides with transverse bands of brownish black, external 
feathers of the tail palest, broad subterminal band on the tail obscure or wanting. 
Young .—All the rufous parts of the plumage with wider transverse bands of brownish black ; wing coverts dark bluish 
cinereous, with large circular spots of black ; under parts with longitudinal stripes, and large circular spots of black. 
Total length 11 to 12 inches, wing 7 to 7|, tail 5 to inches. 
H b. The entire continent of America. Specimens in Nat. Museum, Washington, and Mus. Acad. Philadelphia. 
List of specimens. 
Catalogue number. 
Sex and age. 
Locality. 
When col¬ 
lected. 
Whence. 
Original number. 
Collected by— 
Point of bill to end 
of tail. ^ 
P 
sureraer 
s • 
© So 
o .5 
m > 
Q. 
rs 
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s t 
g g 
e 
W 
Wing from carpal F 
joint. 
Remarks. 
6492 
Q 
Mar. 20,1857 
6918 
1857. 
8521 
9 
Aug. 31, 1853 
10.75 
22.50 
7.50 
5172 
3 
10.38 
21.50 
7.50 
5178 
5175 
3 
10.13 
22.00 
7.38 
5177 
9 
Forty miles up tile Yellow 
July 10, 1856 
5172 
9 
May 30, 1856 
10.75 
23.00 
8.00 
6953 
3 
337 
W. S. Wood. 
50*26 
3 
Feb. 12,1855 
4 
9.50 
21.00 
6.00 
5024 
April 6, 1855 
42 
11.00 
22,00 
8.00 
4570 
19 
8518 
Dec. 9, 1854 
6 
10.50 
21.00 
8.00 
8515 
19 
5582 
9 
103 
10.50 
20.00 
6952 
3 
Aug. 11, 1857 
389 
5027 
3 
5583 
3 
W. S. Wood. 
9.50 
18.50 
5025 
152 
10.50 
22.00 
7.50 
and gums yellow. 
5580 
July 28, 1856 
168 
W. S. Wood. 
10.00 
3 
April —, 1856 
346 
Jan. —, 1855 
Q 
153 
21.58 
7.58 
July 4,1853 
8517 
Jan. 23,1854 
Lieut. Whipple. 
59 
Kennedy and Moll- 
7099 
Guatemala .... .. .. 
J. Gould. 
