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Regulus satrapa.
Descriptions of First Plumage of Certain North Am. Bbs. Wm.Brewster.
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8. Regulus satrapa.
First plumage: female. Pileum (including forehead) dark smoky-brown; line over the eye entirely cut off at its anterior corner by the junction of the dusky lores with the brown of the forehead ; tertiaries broadly tipped with white ; breast strongly washed with pale fawn-color ; otherwise like adult. From a specimen in my collection taken at Upton, Me., August 25, 1874. A young male taken August 25, 1873, is in every way similar. A good series of specimens of various ages shot during August and the early part of September illustrate well the transitional stages. First the brown of the pileum darkens into two black stripes, while the line over the eye broadens to meet its external margin. Next, two lines of yellow feathers appear inside and parallel with the black ones, while the orange of the central space (of the male) is produced last.
Bull. N.O.O. 3, Jan., 1878. p. 19.