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l)lack, separated from the collar by a narrow white band ; another 

 white band edges the black collar below ; middle of the back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts black, with a purple gloss ; lower parts deep 

 tawny, becoming dusky or blackish on belly and fading into a more 

 buffy or ochreous tint on chest, sides, and flanks ; a black round 

 spot on each side of the breast ; lower abdomen, vent, and under 

 tail-coverts black, the latter somewhat glossy ; scapulars long and 

 narrow, bent downwards, glossy blue-black on the outer web, satiny 

 white on the inner one, which is very narrow ; all the wing-coverts 

 and anterior scapulars white ; speculum on the secondaries glossy 

 blue-black, edged with a white band at the tip ; tertials rather 

 broad and resemble the larger scapulars, having the outer web glossy 

 blue-black and the inner one white ; primaries blackish brown ; 

 under wing-coverts white ; axillaries white ; tail blackish brown : 

 " bill of a lead-colour, horny white at the tip ; feet and toes dark 

 lead-colour, webs black-grey ; irides dark brown " {Schrader). Total 

 length about IS inches, wing 8-5, tail 4-5, culmen 1'6, tarsus 1*4. 



Female. Dark rufous brown, an indistinct collar round the neck 

 formed by rufous-chestnut indistinct bars ; interscapular region 

 with irregular rufous-brown bars, almost hidden on the occiput and 

 nape ; rump almost uniform dark brown, usually with indistinct 

 rufous bars ; some irregular indistinct bars on the breast ; abdomen 

 .and under tail-coverts uniform brown ; wings dark brown, speculum 

 dark metallic blue, bounded (as in the male) anteriorly by a white 

 band at the tip of the last row of upper wing-coverts, and posteriorly 

 by a similar band at the tip of the secondaries ; falcate tertials 

 dusky, with the outer web metallic blue and a silvery-grey band 

 along the middle ; marginal under wing-coverts brown, edged with 

 white, the inner ones with the axillaries white ; tail brown. 



Young. Similar to adult female, but much paler brown ; sides of 

 the head and throat dull whitish buff, with some dusky streaks ; 

 tertials much less falcate, and speculum dusky greyish brown, 

 bounded anteriorly by a white band at the tip of the greater wing- 

 «overts and posteriorly at the tip of the secondaries. 



Hah. Arctic and Subarctic coasts of the jSTorthern hemisphere, 

 breeding on the Varanger Fjord (Norway), in Russian Finmark, 

 and from the Taimyr Peninsula eastward to Bering Strait and Alaska. 

 It has been found in Cumberland Bay, in Disco Fjord (Greenland), 

 along the coasts of Kamtschatka, and in the Kurile Islands ; 

 occasionally it straggles to the temperate portions of Europe. 



■«, 6. $ ad. sk. No locality. Salvin-GodmanColl. 



«, d, e. c? ad. et Iceland. " Dr. Thienemanu [P.]. 



juv. St. 

 /. (S ad. sk. Norway (Chrktiania Mm.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(J. $ ad. sk. Vardo, N. Norway. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



h. (S ad. sk. Varanger Fjord, N. Norway, Seebohm Coll. 



May {Meves). 

 i, k. (S ad. et juv. Kussiaa America. Capt. Collinson [P.]. 



.<t. 

 J. y imm. sk. Point Barrow, N. Alaska, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



June. 



