Lake Umbagog journals, 1871-1916 (inclusive)
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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.