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wall. Mr. Eyton includes it in his Catalogue of the Birds 

 of Shropshire and North Wales; and Mr. W. Thompson 

 says it is diffused in Ireland through the wooded districts 

 of the north particularly, hut not in great numbers. It 

 is found also in all the counties north of London, from 

 Middlesex to Northumberland ; and Mr. Macgillivray 

 mentions its occurrence in the vicinity of Edinburgh. It 

 is resident all the year in Sweden ; and inhabiting Siberia 

 and Russia, is spread southward over the whole European 

 continent even to Italy, and about Palermo in Sicily, where 

 it is also common, and resident all the year. It is observed 

 to be particularly abundant in Holland; and M. Temminck 

 includes it in his Catalogue of the Birds of Japan. 



The beak is black ; the irides hazel ; the top of the 

 head, nape, and cheeks greyish white ; over the eye, and 

 descending from thence over the ear-coverts, is a black 

 stripe, narrow, and sometimes said to be entirely wanting 

 in old males, but broader in females ; on the upper part of 

 the back a triangular patch of black, one point of which 

 is directed downwards ; the shoulders, scapularies, and 

 part of the rump, tinged with rose red ; wing-coverts 

 black ; wing-primaries greyish black ; the tertials broadly 

 edged with white ; upper tail-coverts black ; the three 

 pair of central tail-feathers very long and black ; the 

 next three pair each half an inch shorter than the feather 

 on the same side which precedes it, and all six are black 

 on the inner web, and white on the outer ; the whole of 

 the under surface of the body greyish white ; the sides, 

 flanks, and under tail-coverts, tinged with rose colour ; 

 under surface of the body, greyish white ; legs, toes, and 

 claws, almost black. 



The whole length of the bird about five inches and a half. 

 From the carpal joint to the end of the wing two inches 



