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TETEAONIDa:. 



mostly with white tips, quills dull blackish brown, the outer webs 

 mottled with rufous or buff ; chin and throat black, circumscribed 

 by a white line, parting across the forehead and traversing the 

 cheeks below the eye ; a small white patch behind the eye ; ear- 

 coverts elongate, brown barred with dusky ; front of neck and chest 

 brown or rufous brown, with a subterminal black band and white 

 tips ; rest of the underparts with dark centres and white margins 

 and often, especially on the breast and belly, with a mesial white 

 spot, but the feathers on the sides and flanks are generally more 

 rufous ; vent and tarsi white ; centre pair of tail-feathers brownish 

 or reddish grey, indistinctly barred and mottled with black and buif 

 and narrowly tipped with grey ; outer tail-feathers mottled with grey 

 and black, with a ^vide subterminal black band and white tip. 

 Total length 14 inches, wing 0-5, tail 4-9, tarsus 1-3. 



Adult female differs chiefly from the male in having the chin and 

 throat mostly white and in being slightly smaller. 



Young hirds have the feathers of mantle, scapulars, and wing- 

 coverts barred and blotched with black and with marked buff shaft- 

 stripes ; chin and throat white ; chest and upper breast reddish 

 brown, blotched with black and mixed with white ; rest of under- 

 parts mostly white, but the sides and flanks are usually strongly 

 bari'ed with black ; all the tail-feathers are greyish brown, or reddish 

 grey indistinctly baiTcd and mottled \^"ith dusk}\ 



Hah. Europe and N. and Central Asia; ranging in the west to 

 Scandinavia, and in the east to Kamtschatka, Saghalien, and Yezo, 

 Japan, southwards to N. Spain, xf. Italy, Transylvania, the Altai 

 Mountains, and N. China. 



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France. 



Germany. 

 Norwa}', July. 



Eidsvold, Norway, March. 

 Selbo, Norway, April. 

 Sweden, Dec. (H. Wheel- 



u-riffht). 

 Helsingfors, Finland, March. 



Russia. 



St. Petersburg. 



ArcLaugel. 



River Kama, Perm. 



Malo Altymskoie, Obi River, 



July. 

 Saiar Mts., Altai. 



S. Manchuria, June. 



S. Yezo, Oct. {T. W. Bla- 

 kiston). 



Purchased. 



Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 



Prof. R. CoUett [P.l. 

 Prof. R. Collett [P. 

 Tweeddale CoU. 



Dr. F. W. Forssell 



[C]. 

 Purchased. 

 J. Brenchley, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 Dr. R. Bowdler 



Sharps [P.]. 

 H. E. Dresser, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Dr. 0. Finsch [C.]. 



St. George Littledale, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 Dr. H. M. James [P.]. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



