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Passerculus sandwichensis. savanna.
Descriptions of First Plumage of Certain North Am. Bbs. Wm.Brewster.
60. Passerculus savanna.
First plumage: male. Above light brownish cream-color, streaked thickly and finely on the top of the head and nape, more broadly on the back, with dark brown. Beneath dull white, strongly tinged anteriorly with brownish-yellow, finely streaked everywhere excepting upon the abdominal and anal regions with dull black. Wings paler than in adult, with the greater and middle coverts tipped with fulvous. From a specimen in my collection, shot at Upton, Maine, August 11, 1873.
Bull. N.O.C. S, July, 1878. P, 118
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