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folk, and Lincolnshire ; but has not been traced in tliis coun- 

 try, as before observed, north of the Humber. Pennant 

 says it is found, though rarely, in S\yeden ; but as this bird 

 does not appear in the works of Muller, Brisson, or Nilsson, 

 referring to the ornithology of Denmark, Norway, and Swe- 

 den, or in the recently published Fauna of Scandinavia by 

 the naturalist last named, I am induced to suppose that 

 Pennant was mistaken on this point. It is very abundant in 

 Holland ; and numbers are brought alive from that country 

 to the London Markets for sale ; the price is usually four or 

 five shillings a pair ; and the birds are attractive in confine- 

 ment from the beauty of their plumage, their graceful form, 

 and general sprightliness. They are not very common either 

 in France, Provence, or Italy ; but are found on the marshy 

 borders of the Black and the Caspian seas. 



In the adult male, Avhen alive, the beak and irides are of 

 a most delicate orange colour; the head, neck, and ear- 

 coverts, pearl-grey ; descending from the space between the 

 base of the beak and the eye is a black pendent whisker, or 

 moustache, of three quarters of an inch in length, and ending 

 in a point ; back, greater wing-coverts, and upper tail-coverts, 

 fawn-colour ; the smaller wing-coverts black ; the primaries 

 greyish brown, with narrow white outer edges ; the tertials 

 with broad external edges of fawn colour, bounding a black 

 stripe ; the internal webs being bufFy white ; the middle 

 tail-feathers three inches long, the others shorter and gra- 

 duated ; the outside tail-feather one inch and a half long, 

 black at the base, and white at the end ; the two next pairs 

 white on the outer webs, and bufFy white on the inner webs ; 

 the other six nearly uniform fawn colour. Chin, throat, and 

 breast, white, tinged with grey, and passing into yellowish 

 white on the belly ; the sides tinged with salmon colour ; the 

 flanks fawn colour; under tail-coverts jet black ; legs, toes, 

 and claws, black. 



