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Olbiorchilus hiemalis.
Descriptions of First Plumage of Cer-
tain North Am. Bbs. Wm.Brewster.
17. Troglodytes parvulus var. hyemalis.
First plumage: male. Remiges, rectrices, etc., as in adult; rest of
upper parts dark reddish-brown, becoming more dusky anteriorly : no
trace of bars except on wings and tail. Beneath dull smoky-brown,
with a strong ferruginous suffusion on sides, anal region, and crissum ;
every feather of under parts with a bar of dark brown. From a specimen
in my collection taken at Upton, Me., August 4, 1874.
Bull. N.O.C. 3, Jan., 1878, p. 22.