160 Wii<d Birds and their Haunts 



white, having the feathers on the cheeks and neck dark in 

 the centres ; on the breast these are broader, and on the 

 flanks they are distributed in irregular waves ; the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts are white, with the upper plumaga, 

 the outer f aathers paler in shade barred with clove-brown ; 

 the tail is nearly of the same tint, all narrowly edged with, 

 and having the shafts yellowisn-white. Its breeding- 

 place is Northern and Arctic Europe, Northern and 

 Arctic America, and Nev\ Holland. 



