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Young male of the year. Similar to the adults, but with a much 

 shorter bill, the base of the latter being conspicuously yellow ; the 

 mantle streaked with blackish, and the scapulars marked with black 

 almost as much as in the adult bird ; the upper tail-coverts and 

 tail-feathers barred with dusky and pale rufous ; the greater coverts 

 black, forming a hand across the wing ; head and neck and under- 

 parts as in the winter plumage of the adults, the throat not being 

 st leaked with dusky : "bill blackish olive, yellowish olive at the 

 base of both mandibles ; feet, including web, bright orange-yellow ; 

 iris blackish brown " (L. Stejneger). 



Adult in winter plumage. General colour above light ashy grey, 

 with obsolete whitish edges to the scapulars and wing-coverts, 

 especially the greater series ; lesser coverts distinctly black in the 

 centre ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, the 

 outer primaries with white shafts, the inner primaries ashy towards 

 the ends, with a white fringe ; secondaries broadly tipped with 

 white, and white also along the inner web ; the inner secondaries 

 ash} r grey like the back, with blackish shaft-lines ; lower back and 

 rump and upper tail-coverts like the back, the latter freckled and 

 edged with ashy white ; tail-feathers ashy grey, whitish at base, 

 mottled with ashy : head and neck ashy grey ; the forehead and 

 eyebrows white, becoming fulvescent above the ear-coverts : lores 

 dusky ashy ; sides of face whitish, streaked with ashy grey, the 

 upper edge of the ear-coverts uniform ashy ; cheeks, throat, and 

 under surface of body pure white ; the sides of the neck and sides 

 of upper breast ashy grey, the latter with a distinct dusky patch ; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts white ; the feathers along the 

 edge of the wing ashy grey; quills greyish below: "bill dark 

 brown, yellowish at the base of the lower mandible ; feet and toes 

 yellow ; iris brown " (E. W. Oatcs). 



Hah. Breeding in Xorth-eastern Europe and Northern Siberia, 

 ranging south in winter to Africa, India, and Australia. 



a. $ ad.sk. River Onega, Russia, July 9 Seebohm Coll. 



( W. Meres). 



b. d ad. sk. Ijma Reaka, Dvina, July 8 Seebohm Coll. 



' (27. JR. Alston). 



e. ,1 Ad. ; <>. Pull. Archangel, .1 ul v. 1 >r. R. B. Sharpe [P.]. 



sk. 



/. $ ad. sk. Archangel, Aug. Seebohm Coll. 



g. cj juv. sk. Archangel, July 24 ( W. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Meves). 



h,i. d ; k. $ ad.sk. Petchora River, June. H. Seebohm and J. A. 



Harvie-Brown, 

 Esqrs. V.. 



1. J ad.sk. Siberia. TweeddaW.'oll. 



vi. $ iinm.sk. Schtschutschia, River Ob, Geogr. Soc. Bremen 



Aug. 18 (/)>: 0. Fimch). [P.]. 



n. 3 ad.sk. River Yen-e-sei, June 1(3 Tweeddale Coll. 



(H. Seebnhm). 



o. s ad.sk. Lake Baikal, May 24 {Dr. Seebohm Coll. 



Di/bowskf). 



