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feathers, which are dull grayish yellow, sprinkled with black 
Sides of the neck spotted with white. Under parts white, 
streaked with brownish-red, transversely and undulatingly barred 
with black. Sides and under tail coverts, reddish. 
u Length, 10 inches ; extent of wings, 15 ; bill along the 
back, i, along the gap, ; tarsus i; middle toe nearly the 
same. 
“ Young Male. 
“ Similar to the adult male in the general distribution of the 
colors, hut the white of the head and throat bright reddish- 
yellow ; the back of the fore-neck and sides of the head, deep 
brown ; the under parts less pure and more dusky ; and the tail 
of a duller gray. 
“ Adult Female. 
“ The female resembles the young male, but is more deci¬ 
dedly colored; the bill darker, the head of a more uniform and 
richer reddish-yellow ; the sides of the neck spotted with yel¬ 
low and black. 
u Young Female. 
“ The young females are somewhat smaller and lighter in 
their tints than the young males. 
u Very young Birds. 
w Bill brownish-yellow. Iris light hazel. The general color 
of the upper parts, light yellowish-brown, patched with gray j 
sides of the head dusky.”— Audubon's Birds of America. 
u This well known bird is a general inhabitant of North 
America, from the northern parts of Canada and Nova Scotia, 
in which latter place it is said to be migratory to the extremity 
of the peninsula of Florida, and was seen in the neighborhood 
of the Great Osage Village in the interior of Louisiana. They 
are numerous in Kentucky and Ohio. Mr. Pennant remarks 
that they have been lately introduced into the Island of Jamaica, 
where they appear to thrive greatly, breeding in that warm 
climate twice in the year. Capt. Henderson mentions them as 
being plenty near the Belize, at the Bay of Honduras. They 
