SP. CHAR. _Adult._ Ground-color of the occiput, nape, scapulars, and
interscapulars, brownish-white, each feather with medial streak of
dusky-brown; rump and upper tail-coverts white, with the streaks in
sharper contrast. Wings clear brownish-dusky with two conspicuous
white bands, formed by tips of middle and secondary coverts; tertials
broadly, and secondaries narrowly, edged with white; tail-feathers
narrowly edged with white, this broader on inner webs. A narrow
frontal band (tinged with brownish), an obscure superciliary stripe,
and the lower parts in general, white; sides streaked with dusky, and
lower tail-coverts each with a medial streak of the same. On the
forehead and vertex a somewhat quadrate patch of intense carmine.
Nasal plumuli, lores, and a small, somewhat quadrate, gular spot, dark
silky-brown. Bill yellow, the culmen and gonys black.
♂. Throat, jugulum, and breast, rosaceous-carmine (extending upward
over the maxillæ, and backward over the sides almost to the flanks);
rump tinged with the same.
Var. _linarius_ (21,577, Philadelphia). Wing, 2.80; tail, 2.35; bill,
.35 and .22; tarsus, .55; middle toe, .30.
Var. _holbölli_ (39,263, Quebec). Wing, 3.00; tail, 2.40; bill, .42
and .29; tarsus, .60; middle toe, .37.
Var. _holbölli?_ (52,457, Kodiak). Wing, 3.00; tail, 2.40; bill, .47
and .25; tarsus, .55; middle toe, .35.
♀. No red except on the crown, where its tint is less intense; dusky
gular spot larger, extending farther on to the throat.
Var. _linarius_ (902, Penn.). Wing, 2.70; tail, 2.30; bill, .32 and
.23; tarsus, .55; middle toe, .32.
Var. _holbölli_ (39,362, Quebec). Wing, 3.10; tail, 2.50; bill, .42
and .29; tarsus, .61; middle toe, .39.
Var _holbölli?_ (52,460, Kodiak). Wing, 2.80; tail, 2.30; bill .39 and
.23;. tarsus, .54; middle toe, .32.