. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. GOATSUCKERS 169 brown or grayish-brown, finely marked with dusky, and much broken by irregular niottlings or spotting 01 light brownish-buff, ochraceous-bupf, or dull light tawny- ochraceous, the black often in form of irregular shaft- streaks ; primaries and primary coverts, brownish-black, conspicuously spotted on outer webs with tawny, their inner webs with bars of the same color, these not extending to shaft, and becoming paler toward edge of the web; terminal portion of primaries (especially on inner webs) confusedly mottled with grayish-brown
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. GOATSUCKERS 169 brown or grayish-brown, finely marked with dusky, and much broken by irregular niottlings or spotting 01 light brownish-buff, ochraceous-bupf, or dull light tawny- ochraceous, the black often in form of irregular shaft- streaks ; primaries and primary coverts, brownish-black, conspicuously spotted on outer webs with tawny, their inner webs with bars of the same color, these not extending to shaft, and becoming paler toward edge of the web; terminal portion of primaries (especially on inner webs) confusedly mottled with grayish-brown and dusky; lores and sides of head, narrowly barred with pale tawny and dusky ; cheeks, cliin, and throat, brownish-black barred (narrowly) with light tawny- brownish, the first usually flecked with white in front; lo-U'cr throat crossed by a hand of xMic, this often suffused with light buff, especially on center portion ; chest and breast streaked with pale grayish-brown and dusky and spotted, especially on chest and sides of breast, with pale brownish buff, the abdomen similarly marked but general color paler, the darker markings more in the form of irregular narrow transverse bars ; under tail-coverts, light buff, usually with irregular bars (often V-shaped) of dusky; bill, brown; iris, dark brown; feet, l)rownish. ."Xdui-t Female: Similar to the adult male but without white on lateral tail-feathers, the three outer pairs of which are broadly tipped with buffy. and general coloration averaging browner (more suffused with buffy). Nest and Eggs.— Eggs: 2, white, beautifully marked with spots of brown, yellowish-brown, and purple; laid on old leaves or decayed bits of wood, usually in deep woods, beneath dense underbrush, or in shady ravines. Distribution.— P-astern United States and southern Canada ; north to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Maine, Vermont, soutliern Quebec, Ontario, southern Kee- watin. Manitoba, and Saskatchewan; west to eastern edge of the Great Plains,
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