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From tlience northward it has been noticed in Worcester- 

 shire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, Cumberland, and Westmore- 

 land. In a recent Fauna of Scandinavia, this bird is includ- 

 ed as visiting Norway and Sweden in summer. It is a pe- 

 riodical visiter in the central parts of Germany and France, 

 and observed to be most numerous in the latter country in 

 spring and autumn, when going to and returning from coun- 

 tries further north. It is abundant in the southern provinces 

 of Europe, particularly along the coasts of the Mediterranean. 



An adult male in the breeding season has the beak black, 

 with a spot of white over its base on the forehead ; irides 

 dark brown ; upper part of the head and neck, including the 

 eyes, dark brownish black ; the back of a decided black : 

 wing-primaries and secondaries brownish black ; edges of the 

 greater wing-coverts, and the outer webs of the tertials, pure 

 white ; tail-feathers twelve ; the outer web and part of the 

 inner web next the shaft of the outer and second tail-feathers, 

 white ; the third from the outside, white on a small portion of 

 the outer web only ; all the rest of these and the other tail- 

 feathers black : all the under surface of the bird to the end of 

 the under tail-coverts, white ; legs, toes, and claws, black. 



The whole length of the bird five inches and one eighth. 

 From the carpal joint to the end of the longest primary three 

 inches and one-eighth : the first wing-feather less than half 

 the length of the second ; the second equal to the fifth ; the 

 fourth feather longer than the second ; the third, the longest 

 in the wing. 



An adult female killed in summer, for which I am indebted 

 to the kindness of John Walton, Esq. of Byard's Lodge, 

 near Knaresborough, who obtained it in the Valley of Deso- 

 lation, near Bolton Abbey, has the beak black, without any 

 white over its base ; the head, neck, back, and wing-coverts, 

 dark hair brown ; wing-primaries brownish black ; greater 

 coverts and tertials edged with dull white ; tail-feathers mark- 



