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longest, second primary sometimes as long as the fourth, bastard 

 primary 0-75 to U'55 inch. Length of wing 4-2 to 3'5 inches 

 (females 3-7 to 3-45), tail 2-45 to 2-0, cnlmen 0-7 to 0-G2, tarsus 

 1-2 to 1-05. 



Aihdi female in breed huf-plumaffe. General colour of the upper 

 parts dull brown ; forehead and eye-stripe huffish white, much 

 narrower than in the male ; lores and upper part of the ear-covcrts 

 brown ; wings and wing-coverts not so dark as in the male ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts white ; tail as in the male, but the dark 

 parts not quite so dark ; undcrparts as in the male. After 

 the autumn moult both sexes have a huffish-brown margin to every 

 feather, so that they are scarcely distinguishable, and resemble the 

 adult female in breeding-plumage except that the quills and tail- 

 feathers are margined with huffish brown at the tip, and the inner- 

 most secondaries and wing-coverts arc similarly margined, not only 

 at the tip but along the outside webs. The underparts are also 

 darker in colour. It is not known that birds of the year differ 

 from adults. Young in first plumage resemble the female, but 

 have obscure transverse terminal dark bars and pale centres to most 

 of tlie feathers of the upper and i;nder parts. 



The Wheatear Chat breeds throughout Central and Northern 

 Europe as far north as land exists, and in Southern Europe where 

 the mountains are high enough to allow of the growth of the pine 

 and birch. Westwards its breeding-range extends over Iceland as 

 far as Greenland and Labrador, and eastwards throughout Northern 

 Siberia, the mountains of Persia and Syria, and beyond Behriug's 

 Straits into Alaska. In winter it is found in North and West Africa 

 and the east coast south of the eqiiator. The Asiatic birds migrate to 

 Mongolia, Northern India, and Persia. On the American continent 

 it has been found in winter as far south as the Bermudas. 

 a. (S ad. sk. Albany Hirer, Canada. George Barnston, Esq. 



&, e. (f 5 fid. sk. Lichtenfels, Greenland, R. B. Sharpe,Esq. [P.]. 

 June 27, 1874. 



(/. S ad.; e. Juv. sk. Lichtenfels, July 1874. R.B. Sbarpe,Esq. [P.l. 



/. Juv., r/,7t. Imm. sk. Ivichtenfels, August 1874. R. B. Sharpe,Esq. [P.]. 



i. Ad. St. England. J. Gould, Esq. 



/c. $ ad.st. Wiltshire. Col. Montagu [P.]. 



Z, w. Juv. St. Pagham Harbour, Sept. R. B. Sharpe,E8q. [P.], 



1872. 



n, 0. Juv. sk. Pagham Harbour, Sept. 1, R. B. Sharpe,Esq. [P.], 



1872. 



;j. (S ad. St. Brighton. J.G.Children,Esq.[P.]. 



q, r. S 2 ad. St. Cookham, Berks, March. Mv. W. Briggs [P.]. 



s, f- d 2 ad. St. Hampstead. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.l. 



M, v. d $ ad. sk. Thetford, Norfolk, March F. Godmau and O. Sal- 

 18r)7 {Perci/ Godman). vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



w. c? ad.; .r, y. Juv. Cambridgeshire. Mr. J. Baker [0. J. 



s. 5 imm. sk. Belgium, Sept. 15, 1871. Bru.s.iels Museum [P.]. 



rt'. c5' ad. sk. S. Norway, July 18(30 F. Godman and O. Sal- 



(J. Hahcr). vin, Esqrs. [PJ. 



h'. $ ad. .sk. Borrcgaard, S. Norway, F. Godman and 0. Sal- 



June 180G (/. Baker).' vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



