On Tue, 5 Dec 1995, David Wright wrote:

> Re the significance of the chestnut collar, I seem to remember Kenn
> Kaufman's account in the Audubon "master guide" indicating that
> females can sometimes have a chestnut wash on the nape, as well as
> some black on the underparts. It's too bad field guides don't routinely
> indicate the source of diagnostic characters (personal observation
> vs. primary lit. vs. taken-from-another-field-guide, etc.).

It wouldn't surprise me if this was personal observation--I believe Kenn
grew up in Kansas (as I recall) and he would run into a few of these
birds around this time of year. My experience in the Midwest with them
was purely breeding and September, so I'm going to fire off a note here
to a friend back home and see if I get anything. Will post if so. RK
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ray Korpi "Under transient skies
Hm: Portland, OR I cannot hobble change,
Wk: Clark College Not now or ever."
Vancouver, WA --William Kloefkorn
rkorpi at clark.edu From _Alvin_Turner_as_Farmer_, #16