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folk, Norfolk, and Lincolnshire ; but has not been traced 

 in this country, as before observed, north of the Humber. 

 Pennant says it is found, though rarely, in Sweden ; but 

 as this bird does not appear in the works of Muller, 

 Brisson, or Nilsson, referring to the ornithology of Den- 

 mark, Norway, and Sweden, or in the Fauna of Scan- 

 dinavia 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 confinement from the beauty of the plum- 

 age, their graceful form, and general sprightliness. They 

 are not very common either in France, Provence, Italy, 

 or Sicily ; but are found on the marshy borders of the 

 Black and the Caspian seas. 



In the adult male, when 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 bufly white ; the middle tail-feathers three inches 

 long, the others shorter and graduated ; 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 



