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October, 1851, appears to be the first authenticated instance. 
It has also been obtained in the following counties :— 
Cambridgeshire ; one obtained, December 12th, 1854 
(Yarrell) ; this bird is in the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney. 
Somerset; one obtained previous to 1859 (Matthew, 
‘Zoologist, 1877); the specimen is preserved in the 
Taunton Museum. 
Cornwall; one taken, November 13th, 1865 (Rodd, 
‘Birds of Cornwall,’ p. 96); another procured from the 
same county, October, 1883 (Cornish, ‘ Zoologist,’ 1883). 
Northumberland ; one taken, November 2Ist, 1879 
(Bolan, ‘ Field,’ December 20th, 1879). 
Lincolnshire ; one obtained, October 27th, 1880 (Hart- 
ing, ‘ Zoologist,’ 1880). 
Two specimens have been procured in Ireland, namely, 
one in co. Galway, autumn, 1855; now in the Dublin 
Museum; examined by the late A. G. More; the other in 
co. Cork, September 4th, 1894, and now in the collection 
of Mr. Barrington. 
DESCRIPTIVE CHARACTERS. 
PLUMAGE. Adult male nuptial—Top of head, blackish, 
with a middle stripe of buff; back, scapulars, and wings, 
barred with black and edged with buff; lower back and 
rump, black; mner web of first primary, chiefly white 
with brownish bars; tail, pale buff, barred with black and 
edged with a broad band of white, except the central pair 
of feathers, which are ash-brown; thighs and under tail- 
coverts, isabelline-buff ; neck and breast, buff; lower breast, 
marked with blackish ‘ arrow-heads’; chin and abdomen, 
white; under wing-coverts and axillaries, white, barred 
with light brown. 
Adult female nuptial.—Similar to the male plumage. 
Adult winter, male and female.—In winter the plumage 
displays a general duil yellowish-buff tint. 
Immature, male and female.—The feathers of the head, 
back, and wings, are more deeply margined with reddish- 
buff, and the streaks on the front of the neck are less distinct 
than in the adult. 
Brak. Yellowish-green ; tip, dusky. 
Fret. Light yellowish-grey. 
Irtpes. Dark hazel. 
Kees. Pinkish-yellow, blotched with purple and reddish- 
brown : clutch, four. 
