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     mottled with g‘ 'ish; t‘oreneek heavily streaked; breast and sides heavily 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     barred with dark brownish gray and more or less washed with hutl)‘; belly 
     
     generally white, with sometimes a few bars. ll'iniel' plan/um.~—L'pper parts 
     
     brownish gray, unmarked ; tail without bars: rump and wings as in the adult; 
     
     breast washed with grayish; belly white; (1.1’U/cll'o' Mae/.2 L.. liven; “I: swan; 
     
     Tar“ ‘J‘-)‘ B" 2'13. 
     
    

    
     [A'Il/Ifll‘fi” .tern North ;\lneriea, breeding from Florida to southern New 
     
     Jersey. and loeally and rarely to Maine. 
     
    

    
     Washington, rare T. \'., Aug. Long Island, T. Y, rare in May; uneom- 
     
     mon in Aug. and Sept. Sing Sing. A. V. 
     
    

    
     Iii/{W three to t‘om—7 elay—eolor or bully7 thiekly spotted with ehoeolate, 
     
     chiefly at the larger end. 2'10 x 1'55. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     \Villets frequent both fresh— and salt-water marshes. shores, and 
     
     beaches. If you Visit their haunts during the nesting.r season, on flat- 
     
     tering wings they will hover above your head or fly low over the 
     
     marsh to draw you away from their home. uttering. with scarce a mo- 
     
     ment’s cessation. their loudly whistled call of 1»z'lly-wz'll-zvzfllet. pilly- 
     
     will-zrillel. All day long. and even at night, i have heard them repeat 
     
     these notes until. wearied by their persistence. one is thankful to leave, 
     
     them in undisturbed possession of the ground. 
     
    
   
   
    
     258a. S. s. inornata. Brezl'sl. \VESTERN Wit.LET.~Slightly larger 
     
     than the preeeding. and. in summer plumage. the upper parts are paler and 
     
     less heavily marked with black: the lbl‘ezt. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
     s less 11 xarily streaked and more 
     
     suffused with bully. and the middle tailst'eathers are without black bars. In 
     
     winter plumage the two forms can be distinguished only by the slight and 
     
     ineonstant eharaeter of size. \\'.. 8'30; Tar.. 2.70; B” 2-40. 
     
    

    
     la’unlr/a—“R-stern ['nited States. breeding from Texas to Manitoba; win- 
     
     ters on the Gulf eoast from Florida to Tex s. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Rrrr 1260. Pawnee/{:1 fl/IfIIHIJ'l is an Old—World species whieh ocea— 
     
     sionally wanders to eastern North Ann-riea. It has been taken in Maine. 
     
     Massaehusetts. Ontario. Uhio. Long Island. and New Jersey. The adult male 
     
     may he known by its enlarged rutl'. whieh Varies in color from blaek. (-hest- 
     
     nut. and rut'ous to hutl')‘ and whitish. The t‘emale is without a rutl'. and is 
     
     otherwise \‘er‘v ditl‘erent from the male. The upper parts are grayish brown. 
     
     the haek. seapulars. and tertials are broadly barred with hlaek. the outer 
     
     tail—feathers are ash): the inner ones are barred with bully and hlaek. the 
     
     breast is ashy. with eoneealed hlaek bars. the belly is white. In winter the 
     
     upper parts are light grayish brown with few or no hars, 6 1... ”12-50; \\'.. 
     
     7‘50; Tan. l‘illl: 13.. 1‘50. 9 l... lll'llll: W.. lz-oo; Tull. 1‘40; 15.,1‘15. 
     
    
   
   
    
     261. Bartramia. longicauda. l lbw/MU. BAIITRAMIAN SAXDI’II‘ER; 
     
     UPLANU PLovmc; FIELD l'l.(7\‘l'll{. girl.” llead and neek streaked with hlaek 
     
     and oehi‘aeeousduitl': back and wing-eoverts oehraee:uus—hutl'. barred with 
     
     hlaek: tertials olive. barred with blaek and margiued with oehraeeousshutl; 
     
     primaries t'useous. the outer one Ito/'7'”! veil/z H'lz/tr .' inner tail-feathers hrown» 
     
     ish gray. outer ones Varyingr t'roni oehraeeolls-hull to while. all more or less