YOUNG OF BUDYTES FLAVA. 485 



former, and brown in the latter. But it is possible that the 

 grey plumage may be merely seasonal. 



Young of Budytes flava. 



Five young birds shot, two on the 10th and three on the 

 25th of September 1885, in the neighbourhood of Paris, do not 

 differ materially from young birds of Budytes E,ayi shot in 

 Scotland. The general colour of the upper parts is a very 

 delicate light brownish-grey, the rump tinged with green ; the 

 wings and tail dusky, the feathers largely edged with greyish- 

 white, the first row of small, and the secondary coverts with 

 very pale brownish-grey. The two lateral tail-feathers on each 

 side as in the adult, the next with a small margin of white. 

 There is a cream-coloured band over the eye, becoming yellow 

 behind : the lower parts are yellow, the throat and abdomen 

 purer, the lower part of the neck tinged with red or ochre- 

 yellow ; and with some faintly dusky feathers arranged in a 

 semicircular manner. These birds are apparently in their 

 second plumage, the feathers being unworn. 



In Motacilla and Budytes, the bills and claws vary in conse- 

 quence of being more or less worn at the tip, much in the same 

 degree as is observed in Cinclus Europseus. A large male, with 

 the tip of the upper mandible much worn, at first sight seems a 

 different species from a young individual, with the tip entire 

 and extending considerably beyond that of the lower mandible. 



Blackcap. Sylvia atricapilla. 



Three males and a female of this species having been shot 

 by my son in Colinton Woods, near Edinburgh, on the 31st 

 of May and the 1st of June, I embrace the opportunity thus 

 offered of adding some particulars to its history. 



Length to end of tail 



Extent of wings 8|| 



Bill along the ridge... 



