1. ACCKNTOK. G51 



browner, the flanks streaked distinctly with reddish brown ; thighs 

 reddish brown ; under tail-coverts white, with distinct centres of 

 pale brown ; vmder wing-coverts ashy, mottled with brown bases, 

 the greater series whitish at their ends ; axillaries ashy grey ; quills 

 below dusky brown, inner edges rufescent. Total length 5*8 inches, 

 culmen ()-o, wing 2-S, tail '2-45, tarsus 0-9. 



yt'Stliii;/. General colour above ochraceous buff, thickly mottled 

 with black centres to the feathers, the hind neck and sides of the 

 neck paler ; lesser and median coverts like the back ; greater coverts 

 dusky brown, externally rufous and tipped with bright yellow-ochre ; 

 bastard wing and primary-coverts dusky brown, edged with olive ; 

 quills dusky brown, externally rufous, the inner secondaries tipped 

 with ochre ; rump a little more dingy than the back, but mottled 

 with black centres in the same manner ; upper tail-coverts ochreous 

 brown with blackish centres ; tail-feathers dusky brown, edged and 

 tipped with reddish brown, paler on the margins ; crown of the head 

 dingy brown, slightly washed with fulvous-brown ; lores ochreous, 

 as also the eyebrow, which is distinctly marked out and mottled 

 with black centres to the feathers ; eyelid dull ochreous ; ear-coverts 

 dusky, streaked with ochraceous white, and with a spot of bright 

 ochraceous on the hinder edge ; cheeks and throat ashy whitish, 

 mottled with dusky spots ; sides of the neck dull ochraceous, also 

 mottled with dusky spots ; fore neck and che.4, as well as the sides 

 of the body, brighter ochraceous, with triangular spots of dusky 

 black; breast and abdomen dull white; thighs and under tail- 

 coverts ochraceous, the latter with distinct dusky centres ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries pale ochraceous buff. 



The sexes are alike in colour ; and a pair of birds measure as 

 follows : — 



Total 



length. 



in. 



J ad. S. Sweden, Sept. 23. . 5-8 



2 ad. S. Sweden, Sept. '2S. . 5-8 



Obs. I can perceive no actual difference in specimens from the 

 British Isles and those of the continent of Europe. A male from 

 Malta, killed in February ] 8.54, is remarkable for its white throat 

 spotted with dusky brown, and it has the breast dull ashy washed 

 with brown. "Whether it is a pale variety or merely the ordinary 

 winter plumage of the young bird of the previous year, I am unable 

 to detine with certainty. 



The autumn jj^umcuje, after the «(0m//, differs from the breeding- 

 plumage in being everywhere more rufous-brown. This is especiall}" 

 the case with the head, which is nearly of the same colour as the 

 back and as distinctly mottled with blackish spots ; the grey shade 

 on the eyebrow and sides of neck is also obscured by brown ; the 

 feathers below the eye and on the fore part of the ear-coverts are 

 very distinctly streaked with white, and on the hinder part of the 

 ear-coverts tliere is a distinct patch of inifous ; the under surface is 

 more hoary grey, and the fore neck and chest are both oliscured by 



