518 LARIM. 



figured from and described, fifteen inches and a half ; wing 

 from the wrist thirteen inches. 



I have seen two or three specimens of the adult hird 

 killed in winter, the head is then white. 



A young bird of the year, measuring thirteen inches, 

 has the bill bluish-black ; head on the top dull white, 

 varied with pale brown and dusky streaks ; on the ear- 

 coverts a spot of greyish-black ; neck all round white ; 

 back, scapulars, and tertials orange-brown, spotted with 

 darker brown ; wing-coverts ash-grey, tipped with pale 

 orange-brown ; primaries pearl-grey ; tail but little forked ; 

 chin, neck, and all the under surface of the body white. 



