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the base, with a broad black terminal band, gradually decreasing 

 in size towards the outer feathers, which are edged with white 

 at the tip, the centre feathers brownish at the tip ; head ashy- 

 brown, the forehead more hoary; an indistinct whitish eyebrow 

 extending from the base of the nostril to behind the eye ; lores 

 dusky-grey ; below the eye a whitish spot ; sides of face, sides 

 of neck, throat, and chest light ashy-brown, a little darker on 

 the sides of the body ; fore-part of cheeks and upper throat 

 white, as well as the whole of the centre of the breast, abdo- 

 men, under tail-coverts, under wing-coverts, and axillaries ; the 

 edge of the wing mottled with dark brown bases to the feathers; 

 quill-lining white ; bill pale fleshy, blackish-brown at the tip ; 

 feet olivaceous-green, toes blackish-brown ; iris brown. Total 

 length, 16-5 inches; oilmen, 4-4; wing, 8*8; tail, 3; tarsus, 

 3-2. 



Adult Female in Winter Plumage. Similar to the male in colour, 

 but rather larger ; bill livid pink, blackish-horny at the tip ; 

 feet blackish-plumbeous, toes brownish ; iris brown. Total 

 length, 17-5 inches; oilmen, 5; wing, 8-5; tail, 3; tarsus, 



3'35- 



Adult Male in Summer Plumage. Differs in having the back 

 more or less mottled with rufous and black, the crown of the 

 head rufous, with short broad streaks of black, the sides of the 

 face and entire neck all round rufous, the fore-neck and breast 

 overshaded with rufous, and barred with dusky-blackish, these 

 bars also developed on the abdomen and on the sides of the 

 body. 



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

 less rufous, and distinguished by the larger size. 



Young. Distinguished from the adults by being darker brown 

 above, with broad sandy-rufous edges to the feathers of the 

 upper surface, the innermost secondaries banded with blackish- 

 brown and sandy-rufous ; the head rufous, streaked with dark 

 brown, but indistinctly ; sides of face buffy-white, with very fine 

 streaks of brown ; throat white ; lower throat, sides of neck, 

 and chest reddish-buff, slightly mottled with dusky bases to the 

 feathers of the side of the breast ; remainder of under surface 

 white, suffused with rufescent buff, and shaded with ashy-brown 

 on the sides of the body. 



