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the nasal cavity, so that its secretion has no access to the 

 eyes. This species is said to nestle sometimes in the fens of 

 the eastern districts of England, laying four large eggs of a 

 light olive tint, spotted with brown. On the continent it 

 makes its appearance at the periods of its autumnal and 

 vernal migrations, and is especially abundant in Holland. 



Young. — According to M. Temminck, the young, pre- 

 viously to their first moult, have a " band from the 

 upper mandible to the eye, the throat, base of the tail- 

 feathers, upper part of the quills, the belly, and abdomen 

 pure white ; the feathers of the upper part of the head 

 brown, bordered with light red ; the neck and breast of a 

 light greyish-red ; the feathers of the back and the scapulars 

 blackish, surrounded by a light red band ; the wing-coverts 

 grey, bordered and terminated by a large reddish-white 

 space ; the tip of the tail-feathers bordered with white ; the 

 point of the bill brown. 



