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mesially blackish, edged and tipped with white ; bastard- wing and 

 primary-coverts blackish brown ; quills brown, T\'ith narrow ashy 

 whitish edgings to the feathers, the long inner secondaries browner 

 along the outer webs and edged with white, the inner web also in- 

 temaUy brown ; tail black, the two centre feathers edged with white, 

 the two outer ones white, excepting for a little black near the base 

 and along the lower part of the inner web ; on each side of the 

 crown a blackish stripe, succeeded by a whitish stripe ; lores ashj% 

 as well as the feathers round the eye and the ear-coverts ; cheeks 

 and throat ashy whitish, obscured with smoky brown and followed 

 by a dusky blackish crescent on the fore neck ; upper breast dull 

 ashy ; abdomen and under tail-coverts white ; thighs blackish, 

 edged with white ; under wing-covcrts and axiUaries white, with 

 ashy-brown bases ; quills light brown below, with a great deal of 

 white on the inner webs. 



Wing of young M. lugens, showing the brown quills. 



Young injirst ivinter dress. Above ashy grey, shaded with olive, 

 the lower rump and upper tail-coverts black, the lateral feathers of 

 the latter externally white ; scapulars and lesser wing-coverts ashj' 

 grey like the back ; median and greater coverts pure white, with con- 

 cealed blackish bases ; bastard- wing feathers entirely black ; primary- 

 coverts dusky blackish, edged with ashy ; quills blackish, edged 

 externally with white, broader on the secondaries, the innermost 

 l)rown on the outer web ; tail black, the two outer feathers white, 

 with a little black along the basal part of the inner web of the penul- 

 timate feather; crown of head grey like the back and similarly shaded 

 with olive ; lores and base of forehead yellowish white, as well as a 

 streak along the sides of the hinder crown, above which is a slightly 

 indicated line of blackish ; a streak in front of the eye dusky, as well 

 as the upper edge of the ear-coverts ; cheeks, sides of face, and 

 remainder of ear-coverts white, tinged with yellow ; throat white, 



