Euphagus carolinas. Descriptions of First Plumage of Cer- tain North Am. Bbs. Wm.Brewster. 80. Scolecophagus ferrugineus. Several young birds of both sexes shot at Upton, Me., August 5, 1873, have apparently nearly completed the first moult; but one, a male, has the head still covered with the feathers of the first plumage, which are of a uniform plumbeous color. All are moulting the wing and tail feathers. In each specimen a worn central pair of rectrices projects about three inches beyond the others, which are of a uniform length, and evidently just sprouting. Other individuals seen at the same time were conspicu- ously characterized in the same way, all presenting, when flying, the ap- cearance of birds with long forked tails, the elongated central feathers being slightly spread apart. Bull. N.O.C. 3, Oct., 1878, p. /76.