AMERICAN STINT 299 
rare wanderer to the British Isles. It has been obtained on 
three occasions, and twice from the same locality, several 
years having elapsed between the dates of the two captures. 
The first bird was procured at Mount’s Bay, Cornwall, 
on October 10th, 1853, by W. 8S. Vingoe (EK. H. Rodd, 
‘ Zoologist,’ p. 4297). 
The second and third specimens were taken near Bide- 
ford in Devon, by Mr. Rickards, September, 1869 (Harting, 
‘Handbook of British Birds,’ p. 143), and Mr. Broughton 
Hawley, August 22nd, 1892 (Saunders, Proc. Zool. Soc., 
1893, p. 178). 
DESCRIPTIVE CHARACTERS. 
PLUMAGE. Adult male nuptial.—Feathers of the head 
and back, blackish, thinly margined with rufous; back of 
neck, greyish, splashed with rufous; wing-coverts, ash-grey, 
margined with buff and white, the latter forming an indistinct 
wing-bar ; primaries, brown, darker at their extremities ; 
lower back and rump, black; tail-feathers, pale grey, except 
the longer middle pair which are blackish; cheeks and 
throat, whitish; breast, ash-coloured, mottled with dark 
brown; abdomen, white; under wing-coverts, whitish, 
some of the lower ones being mottled with brown. 
Adult female nuptial——Similar to the male plumage. 
Adult winter, male and female.—Back and _ wings, 
ash-grey, with the centres of some of the feathers dark 
purplish-brown, and the margins white; lower back and 
rump, blackish. 
Immature, male and female.—Closely resembles the adult 
nuptial plumage, but the feathers of the back and wings 
have white margins, and the lower throat and fore-neck are 
washed with buff and exhibit no spots. 
Beak. Blackish-brown. 
Fret. Dusky olive-brown. 
Irtpes. Dark hazel. 
Kees. Creamy-yellow, blotched and dotted with dark 
brown, especially at the blunt end : clutch, four. 
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