404 SIBILATRIX LOCUSTELLA. 



similar but finer materials. One of the eggs, which Mr Weir 

 had removed, and of which, together with the birds, I have 

 made a drawing, was white, sprinkled all over with carmine 

 dots. 



In July 1836, I obtained a young bird fully fledged, from 

 the neighbourhood of Penicuick ; and in August 1887, an 

 adult shot in " the Meadows'" at Edinburgh ; but I have not 

 met with the species in any other part of Scotland. In England 

 it has been seen in Durham, Northumberland, Yorkshire, Cum- 

 berland, Suffolk, Surrey, Middlesex, Hampshire, Wiltshire, 

 the counties along the southern coast, and South Wales. 



Young. — The young bird when fully fledged has its plumage 

 as nrm as that of the old. The upper mandible is light brown, 

 the lower dull yellow ; the feet greyish-yellow. The upper 

 parts are light yellowish-brown, spotted with dusky ; the wing 

 and tail-feathers dusky, edged with light yellowish-brown ; 

 the loral space brownish-white ; the lower parts brownish- 

 yellow, the throat lighter, the sides tinged with brown, the 

 lower wing-coverts yellowish-grey ; the lower tail-coverts simi- 

 lar, with a faint dusky medial streak. The young is thus simi- 

 lar to the adult, but more tinged with yellow, much in the 

 same manner as happens in the Meadow Pipit, Anthus pra- 

 tensis. 



