22 EALLID^J. 



M'asbed with olive cxlernall}' ; the first primarj- pale brown along 

 the outer Aveb ; tail-feathers blackish, externally olive-brown ; 

 crown of head and hind neck like the back, more minutely streaked 

 Avith black ; a broad eyebrow, sides of face, and under surface of 

 bodj' dark slaty grey, with a slight dusky shade on the lores and 

 region of the eye ; throat and fore neck rather lighter grey than 

 the breast ; sides of upper breast olive-brown centred with black like 

 the back ; flanks and sides of vent black, transverselj' barred with 

 white; lower abdomen and vent isabelline bufii' ; under tail-coverts 

 black, barred with white and tipped with isabelline buff, the lateral 

 under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries black, 

 barred and edged with white ; quills ashy blackish below. Total 

 length 11 inches, culmen 1-7, wing 4 9, tail 2-3, tarsus 1-5. 



Adult female. Similar to the male but rather smaller : " bill 

 above nostril very dark brown, below nostril and lower mandible 

 orange-red ; feet light fleshy brown ; iris orange-red " ( W. li. 

 Ogilvie Grant, MSS.) Total length 9'5 inches, culmen 1*5, wing 4'2, 

 tail 1-9, tarsus 1'4. 



Adult in winter 2ihnnar/e. Similar to the summer plumage, but 

 decidedly browner ; the underparts freckled with light brown 

 edges to the feathers, each margin preceded by a dusky subter- 

 miual line ; the lower flanks and thighs strongly washed witli 

 fulvous brown ; the outer upper wing-coverts with zigzag white 

 bars ; throat whitish. 



Young similar to the winter plumage of the adults, but with a 

 whiter throat, and the whole of the centre of the breast and abdomen 

 whitish, slightly washed with brown and with obscure dusky bars ; 

 outer wing-coverts with narrow white bars. 



Nestling black. 



Hub. Europe generally, except the extreme northern parts, east- 

 wards to Central Asia, wintering in N.W. India and Northern 

 Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. Taken at Sea, Lat. 4G° 48' N., Salvin-Godman Cull. 



Long. IPSO' W., Oct. 24 



( W. Osburn). 



h, e. c? 2 ad. sk. Great Britain. Hume Coll. 



d. Inim. ; e, f. Great Britain. Gould Coll. 



Pull. sk. 



(/, h. Ad. sk. Castle Caulfield, Co. Tyrone, J. Y. W. Burges, 



Ireland, Jan., Oct. Esq. [P.]. 



?', k, I. Pull. St. Orkney Islands. Mr. J. Baker. 



VI. S ad. ; n. Imm. Island of Tiree, Dec. 14. Col. Irby [P.]. 



sk. 



0, Ad. sk. St. Andrews, Nov. {R. G. Tweeddale Coll. 



W. R.). 



p. Ad.sk. Whiteliill, Midlothian, August Tweeddale Coll. 



(R. G. W. R.). 



q. Ad. sk. Spurn Head, Lincolnshire, Theodore Fislier, 



August. Esq. [P.]. 



;•, s. Ad. St. Cambridgeshire. Mr. J. Baker [C.]. 



f,u,i\ Ad.sk. Wicken Een, Cambridgeshire. Salvin-Godman CoU. 



w. (S ad. sk. Didlington, Norfolk, Jan. Gould Coll. 



