48. HELODKOMAS. 



441 



the male, but is not quite so strongly marked. Total length 9 inches, 

 culmen 1"5, wing o - G, tail 2, tarsus 1*3. 



Young in autumn plumage. Scarcely differs from the winter 

 plumage of the adult, but, when freshly moulted, it has indistinct 

 margins of ashy bronze on the feathers of the upper surface; the 

 tail-bands are narrower on the centre feathers, while the sub- 

 terminal band is broader than in the adults. 



The change to the summer plumage is apparently effected by a 

 distinct moult, which takes place while the bird is in its winter 

 quarters, and in many instances, especially in the case of the males, 

 the summer plumage is completely assumed before the species leaves 

 for its breeding-place. 



Bab. Nearly the whole of the Old World, from the Atlantic to 

 the Pacific, breeding in the North of Europe and Asia, and visiting 

 Africa and India in wiuter, but not reaching to Australia, though it 

 extends to the Malay Archipelago. 



a. Ad. st. 



b, c. Irum. st. 



d,e.2 ad. et juv. 

 sk. 



2 ad. sk. 

 $ ad. sk. 

 Juv. st. 

 k. Ad. st. 



/, >n. Juv. sk. 



n. Imm. st. 



0, p. Ad. et imm. 



sk. 

 q. Imm. st. 

 r. cJ ad. sk. 



8. c? ad. sk. 

 t. d juv. sk. 



u. rf ad. sk. 



9. Ad. sk. 



w. Ad. sk. 

 .c. Ad sk. 

 //. A4. sk. 

 i .Ad. sk. 

 b'. £ ad. sk. 



c'. tf ad. sk. 



<l . Ad. sk. 

 e. Ad. sk. 



England, December. 



Kingsbury Reservoir, Middle- 

 sex. Aug. 



Kingsbury Reservoir, Middle- 

 sex, July, Aug. (J. E. Hart- 

 iruj ) . 



Thetford, Norfolk, Aug. 11, 

 18oG {O. Sale in). 



Yarmouth, Sept. (J. E. 

 Sorting). 



Aldeburg'h, Suffolk, Sept. 



Epping, near London. 



Romney Marsh, Kent, Sept. 

 Cookham, Berkshire. 

 Wiltshire. 



Plvmpton, Devon (J. E. II.). 

 N orway, May 1 ■', ( E. H. Alston). 

 Sweden, Aug. ( JC Meves). 

 Fogaraa, Hungary, Oct. 6 (C. 



Czunk). 

 Corsica. April i'7 (C. Bygrave 



Wharton). 

 Catanroja, Valencia, April 28 



( //. Saunders). 

 Marocco (Olcese). 

 Dakar, Senegal (L. Laglaize). 

 Angola. 

 : St. Helena. 

 Lamu, E. Africa. 



Adigrat. Abyssinia, April 14. 



Zoulla, June 8 ( W. Jesse). 

 BogOS-land {Ester). 



J. E. Halting, Esq. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Salvin-G odman Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Theodore Fisher, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 H. Doubleday, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Mr. W. Briggs. 

 Montagu Coll. 



Halting Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Hungarian National 



Mus. [P.]. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Monteiro Coll. 

 Gould Cull. 

 F. J. Jackson, Esq. 



[P.I. 

 W. T. P.lanford, Esq. 



[0.1- 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Seebohm Cull. 



