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Young. — The bill and feet are greyish-black. The upper 

 part of the head is dusky, the feathers edged with greyish- 

 white ; the hind-neck pale-grey, streaked with whitish ; the 

 rest of the upper parts ash-grey, each feather with a double 

 margin of brownish-black and white ; but the feathers of the 

 rump and the upper tail-coverts white, barred with dusky. 

 The tail-feathers are ash-grey, margined with dusky and 

 white ; as are the inner secondary quills, the outer and their 

 coverts grey, edged with white ; the primaries blackish-grey, 

 similarly edged. The throat is white ; the cheeks, sides of 

 the neck, its fore-part, and the sides of the body, greyish- 

 white, streaked and barred with grey ; the rest of the lower 

 parts white. 



Remarks. — It is unnecessary now to trace all the names 

 given by authors to this species, which, as M. Temminck 

 observes, " is repeated, in the systems, under seven different 

 appellations." It appears to be generally distributed at 

 different seasons over Europe and North America, moving 

 southward in autumn, and returning in the beginning of 

 summer to the polar regions. 



