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small, slightly arched, acute, that of the middle toe much 

 larger, with the inner edge dilated. 



Plumage very soft, blended on the lower parts, rather 

 firm and distinct above. Wings very long, pointed, the first 

 quill longest, the second slightly shorter ; outer secondaries 

 incurvate, narrow, obliquely sinuate at the end of the outer 

 web, the inner rounded, and extending beyond the outer. 

 Tail of moderate length, with the outer feathers nearly equal, 

 the medial considerably longer and pointed. 



Bill and feet dusky. Upper plumage brownish-black, 

 the feathers edged with yellowish-grey, the scapulars with 

 light red ; wing-coverts greyish-brown, first row tipped with 

 white ; quills brownish-grey, darker toward the end, the 

 inner primaries and outer secondaries edged and tipped with 

 white ; tail-coverts Avhite, often with a dusky spot ; tail- 

 feathers light grey, the two middle dusky toward the end ; 

 cheeks, fore-neck, part of breast, and sides greyish-white, 

 with lanceolate brownish-black streaks ; the rest of the 

 lower parts white. 



Length to end of tail 7 inches ; extent of wings 14f ; 

 bill along the ridge \±, along the edge of lower mandible ±± ; 

 wing from flexure 4^f ; tail 2^- ; tarsus i-±- ; hind toe -f^, 

 its claw -fj ; middle toe \&, its claw 1 3 7 . 



This species, which has been found along the eastern 

 coast of North America, from Florida to Labrador, as stated 

 by Audubon and others, has been introduced by Mr. Gould 

 into his splendid and costly work on the Birds of Europe, 

 in consequence of his having seen a specimen killed at Stoke 

 Heath, near Market Drayton, Shropshire, and in the pos 

 session of Sir Rowland Hill. In the Zoologist, vol. iv. p. 1564, 

 Mr. E. H. Rodd states that two were procured, in the middle 

 of October, 1846, within a few miles of Penzance. Mr. 

 Thompson, in his Natural History of Ireland, vol. ii. p. 297, 

 mentions one " believed, on circumstantial evidence," to 

 have been procured near Belfast. 



