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with white, forming a wing-band ; bastard-wing and primary- 

 coverts blackish-brown, edged with white at the tips ; quills 

 dark-brown with white shafts, a few of the inner primaries also 

 edged with white near the base ; the secondaries dark-brown, 

 fringed with white at the tips, and having the base of the inner 

 webs white, forming a continuous band with the one on the 

 greater coverts ; the long inner secondaries light brown, like 

 the scapulars, with the shafts blackish-brown ; crown of head 

 brown, like the back, with darker brown centres to the feathers; 

 forehead and supra-loral region pure white ; lores dusky-brown ; 

 ear coverts and feathers below the eye light brown, with narrow 

 streaks of dark brown ; above the ear-coverts a streak of white, 

 lined with brown, forming an indistinct eyebrow; cheeks, 

 throat, and under surface of body pure white, or slightly ashy 

 on the throat and fore-neck ; sides of neck and upper breast 

 brown, with slightly darker centres or shaft-streaks ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries white ; the coverts round the edge 

 of the wing dark brown with white margins ; lower primary- 

 coverts dull ashy-brown, forming an inconspicuous wing-patch ; 

 bill, legs, feet, and claws black ; iris hazel. Total length, 5^2 

 inches; culmen, 07; wing, 3'S; tail, i'6; tarsus, o'8. 



Adult Male in Summer Plumage. Much more rufous than in 

 winter, the whole of the feathers of the upper surface being 

 sandy-rufous with black centres and white margins to many 

 of the scapulars and feathers of the back ; head rufous with 

 black centres to the feathers ; the neck also rufous streaked 

 with dusky-blackish, these streaks being smaller and less 

 distinct on the sides of the face, which are also rufous; a 

 slight indication of a whitish eyebrow ; under surface of body 

 white, tinged with rufous on the throat, the chest pervaded 

 with ashy, and both the throat, fore-neck, and sides of breast 

 mottled with dusky spots in the centre of the feathers. Total 

 length, 6'o inches ; culmen, 075 ; wing, 3*8 ; tail, 1-4 ; tarsus, 

 0-8. 



Adult Female in Summer Plumage. Similar to the male, but 

 somewhat less distinctly spotted on the breast. Total length, 

 6'o inches; culmen, 07 ; wing, 3*85; tail, 1-45 ; tarsus, o'8. 



Young. Blackish above, with rufous edgings to the feathers, 

 and thus somewhat resembling the summer plumage of the 



