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Hylocichla ustulata swainsoni
Descriptions of First Plumage of Cer-
tain North Am. Bbs. Wm.Brewster,
3. Turdus swainsoni.
First plumage: male. Above much darker than adult, each feather,
excepting on rump and tail-coverts, with a tear-shaped spot of rich buff:
beneath like adult, but rather more darkly and thickly spotted on the
breast, and with narrow terminal bands of dull black on the feathers of
the lower breast and sides. From a specimen in my collection shot at
Upton, Me., August 4, 1874. Bull. N.O.C, 3, Jan., 1878. p. 18.