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Dorsetshire, Somersetsliire, Devonshire, and a few in Corn- 

 wall ; it is also found in Wales ; is included by Mr. Tem- 

 pleton in his Catalogue of the Birds of Ireland ; where, ac- 

 cording to Mr. Thompson, it is resident in the counties of 

 Down and Antrim, but is very partially distributed. 



North of London, it is found in Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincoln- 

 shire, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and Lancashire. Mr. Hey- 

 sham mentions the capture of this bird near Carlisle as a very 

 rare occurrence ; but says that it is taken occasionally by 

 bird-catchers in the vicinity of Dumfries. Mr. Selby con- 

 siders it a very rare species in Northumberland. Sir Robert 

 Sibbald and Dr. Fleming include it as a bird of Scotland, 

 but no localities are named. It does not appear to visit the 

 Orkneys or Shetland. In Denmark, Sweden, and Russia, 

 it is a summer visiter only, appearing in March, and leaving 

 those countries to go southward in September. In Ger- 

 many, Holland, France, and thence to Italy, it is resident 

 all the year ; and Mr. Strickland says it is common at 

 Smyrna. 



The upper mandible of the beak is dark brown, the lower 

 one pale yellow brown ; the irides hazel ; over the eye and 

 ear-coverts a pale brown streak ; the feathers on the top of 

 the head elongated, forming a crest, when elevated, of a light 

 brown colour streaked with dark brown ; the nape, back, 

 wings, and upper tail-coverts, Avood-bro\vn, streaked on the 

 neck and patched on the back with dark brownish black ; 

 quill- feathers dusky brown, tipped with light brown ; tertials 

 dark brown, edged with light brown ; the outer tail-feather on 

 each side pale brown, with a dark brown patch on the inner 

 web ; the two middle tail-feathers nearly uniform pale brown, 

 all the other eight feathers brownish black, with a triangular 

 spot of white at the tip : the form of the tail square at the 

 end ; the ear coverts are brown ; the throat, breast, belly, 

 and under tail-coverts, pale yellowish brown, with a few small 



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