55. FEINGILLAEIA. 



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secondaries, the latter being washed with brown ; lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts uniform sooty grey ; tail-feathers blackish, 

 margined with ashy, the outer one slightly paler at the extreme 

 tip of the inner web ; head and neck all round, as well as the under 

 surface of the body, sooty grey, the ear-coverts rather lighter ; 

 abdomen paler ashy ; the under tail-coverts grey with ashy-whitish 

 margins ; axillaries and under wing-coverts sooty grey ; quills dusky 

 below, the inner webs ashy : " bill blackish brown, tomia and lower 

 mandible flesh-coloured ; feet light brownish flesh-colour, claws 

 pale" (Stejneger). Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 06, wing 3*5, 

 tail 2-6, tarsus 0-85. 



The adult male in winter plumage differs from the summer plumage 

 in having the feathers of the upper surface obscured by reddish- 

 brown margins, the under surface having the grey of the throat 

 and breast obscured by rusty edges to the feathers, while the lighter 

 grey of the abdomen is mottled with whitish edgings. 



Adult female. Different from the male, and much browner and 

 more sparrow-like. Upper surface brown streaked with black ; 

 the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts deep chestnut ; tail- 

 feathers blackish, edged with chestnut, the outer feather with a 

 whitish tip to the inner web ; wing-coverts brown, edged with 

 rufous ; median and greater coverts blackish, edged with pale rufous 

 and tipped with dull white, forming a narrow double wing-bar; 

 quills blackish, edged with rufous, the primaries with ashy whitish ; 

 crown uniform dark brown; an indistinct superciliary streak of 

 buffy whitish ; eyelid yellowish buff ; ear-coverts uniform brown ; 

 cheeks yellowish buff, separated from the throat by a broad mous- 

 tachial line of dusky ; under surface of body yellowish buff, as 

 also the sides of the body, which are slightly washed with brown ; 

 thighs ashy brown ; fore neck, breast, and sides distinctly streaked 

 with blackish ; lower breast and abdomen dull white ; axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts ashy with dull whitish margins; quills 

 dusky below, ashy along the edge of the inner web. Total length 

 6 inches, culmen 0'5, wing 3 # 25, tail 2 - 6, tarsus 08. 



Young male. Is much duller grey than the adult, and is streaked 

 both above and below with blackish. 



Hob. Eastern Siberia, Kamtschatka, and Japan. 



