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Tyrannus tyrannus.
Descriptions of First Plumage of Cer-
tain North Am. Bbs. Wm. Brewster.
82. Tyrannus carolinensis.
First plumage: male. Above uniform dark sooty-brown, with a
scarcely appreciable lighter edging on the feathers of the nape. No con-
cealed red on the crown. Wing-bands yellowish-white. Breast soiled
white, with a band of ashy-white across the breast. From a specimen in
my collection shot at Upton, Me., July 24, 1872.
Bull, N.O.C. 3, Oct., 1878, p. 176.