Lake Umbagog journals, 1871-1916 (inclusive)
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Pinicola enucleator leucura. Descriptions of First Plumage of Certain North Am. Bbs. Wm.Brewster. 53. Pinicola enucleator. First plumage: male. Forehead, crown, cheeks, and throat dull yellowish-brown, lightest on the throat, with a few blood-red feathers inter-mixed on the forehead and cheeks. A dusky line through the lores. Occiput and interscapular region purplish olive-brown; nape a lighter shade of the same color ; tail-coverts and rump dull yellowish-red; wingbands and edging of secondaries light wood-brown; entire under parts reddish-brown, lightest on abdomen, most pronounced on breast and sides. From a specimen in my collection shot at Upton, Me., August 27, 1874. Young birds in the second or autumnal plumage exhibit almost endless variations of coloring. The males may be distinguished in most cases by the coppery-red on the crown and rump; but some females have the ordinary brownish-yellow on those parts, strongly tinged with red. One young male in my collection exhibits a broad pectoral band of light rose-color mixed with reddish-yellow. Bull. N.O.C. 3, July, 1878. p. 116.