dull green: naked.space onfee j;i|>ia one inch long: tarsus nearly
lone inch and a half: middle toewfthout the na^f hardlyPfn inch:
Ahind toe morlgthan a quarMaWAhe .tigs webbed 'at base/the outer
•Hfreb reaching to the first joint of thnqsutSr^Eofes,' the inner^iling
hardly vim me.
Wilson’s description of fee summeF^plumage being.sufEcihnt..
we omit it here* though' »admitting of'much more d®ail: itt^re^t
words it may be stated that however great the apparent!(Jdfierence;
it may be reduced to tills': 1 . All,thqs|fparts that^are plain
cinereous in winter, take on/a mottkj^appearanee, hfttfi^ strongly
felted with reddish, and varied witfSpafck and yellowish. 2 : Tin#
atiteripr parts that a#© white/ sucaWSre^he^mpereiliar linesSand
breast, become reddish. ' The stronglyitiftafecteristjc marks of
the other parts reihain unchanged. ■
The-young birds of the year havealShe- plumage above j generally
black, the back of the head dusky, and theueajhers%r,oMIy
margined with bright rufous, the superciliary! inejhnd the inferior
parts are of a dingy whit^ inclining^to ,rufous ; this ^ ip p g J i^Q -
minates ife th e breast, 'whdre- the Teathe^p as^fwell as on the
flanks ami the superciliar line, have numerous dusky, dots*: the
middle tail-featllers are terminate d$P|y reddislf^pj
.' Notwithstanding the statements of Wilson, we dp not percd$&
any difference in plumage in the female,'- which - is mqrely <|B|a:
larger size. As the «species breeds|in high$ndrthefn Jat|flMps,
visiting the temperate^egions of America in spring a n d ^ i® n ,
onf its passage to and from its winter .»quarters, it | is the/ more
extraordinary that it should» not equally e x t^ d these’ regular
migrations to Europe.