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stripe over the eye, the cheeks, throat, and breast are dull slate-grey, much 

 paler oh the chin, and shading into buffish white on the centre of the belly 

 and the under tail-coverts. The under wing-coverts and axillaries are 

 chestnut, and the flanks are chestnut-brown barred with white. Bill, legs, 

 feet, and claws pale brown ; irides hazel. The female scarcely differs from 

 the male in colour. After the autumn moult the slate-grey on the under- 

 parts is replaced with pale russet-brown, but it is retained on the^ye-stripe. 

 Young in first plumage differ from adults in winter plumage in having the 

 eye-stripe pale russet-brown like the breast ; this plumage is retained until 

 the first spring moult, when the plumage of birds of the year is assumed, 

 which scarcely differs from that of adults in winter plumage. Young in 

 down are almost uniform deep black. 



NEST OF SNOW-BUNTING. 



