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or less complete black bars, irregular on the inner web ; lesser 

 wing-coverts blackish-brown, with sandy margins ; median and 

 greater-coverts sandy-buff in appearance, the feathers ashy- 

 brown, notched with sandy-buff, and barred with black ; bas- 

 tard-wing, primary-coverts, and primaries uniform blackish- 

 brown ; the secondaries dark brown, notched with white, 

 minutely on the outer web, and more deeply on the inner one; 

 the long inner secondaries, like the scapulars, barred with black, 

 and notched and tipped with white ; centre tail-feathers ashy- 

 brown, barred with black, the sub-terminal bar broader than 

 the others; remainder of the feathers tawny-buff, broadly tipped 

 with whitish, before which is a broad sub-terminal bar of black, 

 the feathers having also some narrower bands of black, not 

 regular or co-terminous ; crown of head blackish, with a mesial 

 streak of sandy-buff, all the feathers also edged with sandy-buff; 

 hind-neck sandy-buff, narrowly streaked with black ; sides of 

 face and ear-coverts sandy-buff, with narrow streaks and spots 

 of black; cheeks and throat pure white; lower throat, fore-neck, 

 and chest tawny-buff, the feathers centred with triangular spots 

 of black, taking the shape of irregular bars on the latter ; breast 

 and abdomen creamy-white, the sides of the body and flanks 

 barred with blackish-brown ; thighs and under tail-coverts uni- 

 form isabelline-buff ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, 

 regularly barred across with black ; quills below ashy, with 

 numerous bars and notches of white along the inner web ; bill 

 yellowish-green, the tip dusky, the edges towards the base yellow; 

 legs and tarsi light yellowish-grey, toes rather darker, claws 

 brownish-black ; iris dark hazel. Total length, 1 1 inches ; 

 oilmen, 1-15 ; wing, 6-5 ; tail, 3-3 ; tarsus, 175. 



Young. Similar to- the adults, but the buff on the head, jugu- 

 lum, wings, &c., much deeper; the streaks on the fore-neck and 

 jugulum much less distinct, and the back plain black, the 

 feathers bordered with buff. 



Range in Great Britain. Eight records of the occurrence of 

 this American species within our limits are considered to be 

 authentic. Although strictly a bird of the New World, it ap- 

 pears to wander considerably during its autumn migration, 

 and has even been found in Australia. In England it has 

 occurred between October and December in the following 



