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of Wight : it has occurred also, though rarely, in Dorset- 

 shire 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 visiter 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. 



An adult female killed in summer, for which I am in- 

 debted to the kindness of John Walton, Esq. of Byard's 



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