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year killed in September, much nearer to London. It has 

 been noticed in Surrey, Sussex, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, 

 Yorkshire, Northumberland, and Durham. On the south- 

 ern coast it has occurred, though rarely, in Hampshire, 

 Dorsetshire, and Devonshire. 



From thence northward it has been noticed in Worces- 

 tershire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, Cumberland, and West- 

 moreland. In a recent Fauna of Scandinavia, this bird is 

 included as visiting Norway and Sweden in summer. It 

 is a periodical visitor 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 return- 

 ing from countries further north. It is abundant in the 

 southern provinces of Europe, and particularly on the 

 coasts and islands 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. 



