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distributed. In Europe, its peculiar localities 

 have perhaps not been remarked with sufficient 

 accuracy ; it, so far as we can trace, is most 

 abundant in the northern countries, but extends 

 its migrations to Italy. Its range does not seem 

 to extend to North America. 



Specimens of this bird killed in Sutherlandshire 

 in the month of June, have the upper parts dark 

 umber brown ; the feathers edged with brownish 

 yellow, inclining to grayish yellow on the back 

 of the neck ; the wings brownish black, and having 

 the quills after the fourth or fifth edged on the 

 outer webs with pure white, which forms a con- 

 spicuous pure line along the wing ; the greater 

 coverts are broadly tipped with pale yellowish 

 white, which forms a bar ; the tail is much forked, 

 brownish black, the inner webs of the feathers 

 paler, and the outer webs of the base white ; the 

 rump is rich purplish red, almost inclining to 

 scarlet ; the cheeks and throat are pale yellowish 

 brown, paler on the breast, and shading into 

 nearly pure white on the belly and vent ; upon 

 the breast and flanks the centre of the feathers 

 are umber brown, giving a broken or streaked 

 appearance to these parts. In the females the 

 colouring of the rump is less vivid, and the 

 general marking less deep and distant. In speci- 

 mens of the same species, shot during winter in 

 the Lowlands, the yellowish brown edgings to the 

 feathers on the upper parts is broader, rendering 

 the colour more subdued, the tint on the rump 



