Hylophilus s. pallasii Descriptions of First Plumage of Certain North Am. Bbs. Wm. Brewster. 2. Turdus pallasi. First plumage: female. Remiges and rectrices as in adult, but darker and duller; rump and tail-coverts bright rusty-yellow; rest of upper parts, including wing-coverts, dark reddish-brown, each feather with a central tear-shaped spot of golden-yellow : entire under parts rich buff, fading to soiled white on abdomen and anal region ; each feather on jugulum and breast broadly tipped with dull black, so broadly, indeed, that this color covers nearly four fifths of the parts where it occurs; rest of under parts, with exception of abdomen and crissum, which with the central region of the throat are immaculate, crossed transversely with lines of dull black. From a specimen in my collection shot at Upton, Me., June 20, 1873. This bird was very young,—scarcely able to fly, in fact,—yet the color of the rectrices is sufficiently characteristic to separate it at once from the corresponding stage of T. swainsoni, which it otherwise closely resembles. Another specimen of apparently nearly the same age, taken at Rye Beach, N. H., July 25, 1872, differs in having a decided reddish or rusty wash over the entire plumage, and by the spots on the breast being brownish instead of black. Bull. N.O.C, 3, Jan., 1878. p. 17-18. 64