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volume of the Transactions of the Linnaean 

 Society. This bird is now in the collection of 

 the Zoological Society ; the other specimens 

 which have occurred have been met with acci- 

 dentally, chiefly in the vicinity, or not far from 

 London. The most northern was taken in Lan- 

 cashire, and is now preserved in the Manchester 

 museum. Its proper country seems to be Nor- 

 thern Europe, the islands in the Northern Ocean, 

 and arctic America, and in many of these coun- 

 tries it is to a certain extent migratory. They 

 are mentioned by most of our arctic voyagers, 

 and were found breeding in " moist meadows, 

 on the shores of the Arctic Sea, the nest placed 

 on a small hillock among moss and stones." 

 formed externally of dried grasses, and lined with 

 deer's hair. In the beginning of May, they were 

 found to have fed on the berries of Arbutus 

 alpina. 



Mr Selby's bird, the original British specimen, 

 had " the 1 head and upper parts of the body pale 

 wood brown, tinged with yellowish gray, the 

 shafts of the feathers being blackish brown. 

 Greater wing coverts and secondary quills black- 

 ish brown, deeply margined with chestnut brown, 

 the tips being white, quills dusky, with paler 

 edges. Above the eyes is a broad streak of pale 

 wood brown, cheeks and ear coverts wood brown, 

 the latter mixed with black. From the corners 

 of the under mandible, on each side of the throat, 

 is a streak of blackish brown. Throat yellowish 

 white. Lower part of the neck and breast sullied 

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