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on each side the throat from the chin to the sides of the neck, where it runs into a close patch of black streaks continued along 
the breast and sides to the root of the tail. Outer two tail feathers with an oblique patch on the inner web near the end ; the 
others edged internally with white. Female similar, except that the upper parts are olivaceous and, even on the crown, streaked 
with black ; the white on the sides and across the breast tinged with yellowish ; a ring of the same round the eye cut by a dusky 
line through it. Length of male, 5.75 ; wing, 3 ; tail, 2.25. 
Hab .—Eastern North America to the Missouri high plains. Cuba, (Gundlach.) Greenland, (Reinhardt.) 
The wings are long and pointed ; the second longest; the first a little longer than the third. 
The tail is slightly emarginate and scarcely rounded. The size of specimens varies considerably; 
thus, in one (4645) the wing measures .40 of an inch more than the type selected, (1545.) 
Specimens generally from the Mississippi valley appear larger than more eastern ones. 
The young birds in the autumnal dress are very different from the spring. The upper parts 
are light olive green, obsoletely streaked with brown ; beneath greenish yellow, obsoletely 
streaked on the breast and sides, the under tail coverts pure white, a yellowish ring round the 
eye, and a superciliary one of the«same color. In this dress it is scarcely possible to distinguish 
it from the immature D. castanea. The differences as far as tangible will be found detailed 
under the head of the latter species. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When col¬ 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
oftvings. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
1545 
3 
May 17.1844 
S. F. Baird. 
5.75 
9.00 
3.00 
723 
<j 
* 
5 50 
8.75 
978 
Q 
May 17,1843 
5.58 
8.33 
2 91 
916 
Q 
702 
o 
May 23,1842 
7445 
V 
34 
3 
May 13,_ 
8310 
May 27,1857 
Wm. M. Magraw... 
27 
5.50 
9.00 
3.00 
lead color; feetyel. 
8300 
May 26,1857 
13 
5,50 
9.12 
3.00 
feet brownish. 
4648 
$ 
5.50 
9.00 
3.12 
4650 
A 
May 11,- 
5 00 
8.62 
2.75 
4044 
.do. 
5.25 
9.00 
3.12 
4646 
.do. 
5.25 
8.75 
3.00 
4649 
A 
5.25 
8 37 
3.25 
4647 
2 
May 12,- 
5.50 
9.25 
3.25 
4645 
O 
A 
.do.... 
.do. 
5.75 
9.25 
3.25 
6501 
$ 
. 
6502 
3 
36 b 
