248 ' 



CUCTTLID.^?. 



mottled with white ; sides of the head, chin, and throat blackish 

 brown and white in broad bars of nearly even breadth ; remainder 

 of the under surface of the body white, with blackish-brown bars 

 not half the width of the intervening white spaces. Total length 

 6"7 inches, wing 5. 



Young nearly full-groivn. Above grey, passing into brownish 

 black on the head, wings, and tail ; crown and nape mottled with 

 white feathers ; feathers of the head, neck, wings, and tail 

 strongly barred with rufous ; remainder of the back much less 

 distinctly barred, each feather being tipped with white next to a 

 subterminal dark bar ; tail with waved rufous bars passing into 

 white near the shafts of the feathers and with white ends ; general 

 colour of the nuderparts huffish white, with blackish-brown bars, 

 slightly broader on the chin and throat than on the breast. Total 

 length 11-7 inches, wing 7'25. 



Hepatic ^jJiase. General colour of the iipper parts cinnamon, 

 barred on the head, mantle, and wings with dusky black ; lower 

 back and upper tail-coverts with a few black spots next to their 

 shafts ; outer tail-coverts with partial traces of dark bars ; tail 

 partially barred with black and marked with white near the shafts, 

 the tips, and some of the edges of the feathers, and with a broad 

 subterminal black band ; underparts huffish white, rather darker 

 on the throat, and all the feathers barred with dusky black. 

 Total length 11-7 inches, culmcn 0-S.3, wing S-5. tail (5-7, tarsus 

 0-75. 



Hah. Nearly the whole of the Old World. 



a. Juv. sk. 



b. Juv. St. 



c. Juv. sk. 



d. Imm. st. 



e. Juv. hepat. sk. 

 /. d ad. ; (/- 



k. Juv. st. 

 /. 2 ad. sk. 



m. 2 ad. sk. 

 w. [ 2 ad.] sk. 



0. .Juv. sk. 



p, Juv. st. 



q. c? juv. sk. 



r. Juv. sk. 



s. c? ad. sk. 

 t. Juv. sk. 



u-w. Ad.; .r-a'. 

 Juv. sk. 



WhitebiU, Midlothian (Jl. G. 



W. R.). 

 Leicestershire. 



Cambridgeshire. 

 Cambridgeshi]-e. 

 Aylesbury, Bucks. 

 Cookham, May, July ( W. 



Brifff/s). 

 West Draj'tou, Middlesex, 



June. 

 Highgate, May 30 (S. B. S.). 

 Kingsbury, June 2. 



Brentford, Sept. 9. 



Clapham, August. 



W^andsworth, Oct. 14. 



Romney, Kent, Sept. 



Brighton, May 2. 

 Pagham, Sussex, July. 



Avington, Hants. May. .Tuly, 



Xwg. {O. E, 8.). 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Theodore Walker, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Mr. Baker. 

 Forbes Coll. 

 IJ. B. Sbarpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 J. E. Harting, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 J. R. Cunuiugton, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 J. E. Harting, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Alex. Brooke, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Gould Coll. 

 R. B. Sharpe, E:^q. 



[P.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 



