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mottled with yellowish white and dark brown longitudinal spots; 

 abdomen dirty white; under wing slate-coloured; flanks mingled 

 rufous brown and dirty white brown predominating. Feet yellow; 

 claws and beak horn-colour. Length five inches and a half; wing- 

 three inches; tail from vent two inches and a quarter; tarsus half an 

 inch; upper mandible two fifths of an inch. 



Pallas's description is the following: — '"Head black, with three 

 white bands, one in the middle of the vertex, the two others above 

 the eyes in the form of eyebrows; neck and bend of the wing, ferru- 

 ginous; upper part of the body of a brown and russet tint; under 

 parts white, with some russet spots on the neck; external tail feather 

 on each side has a longitudinal and oblique white spot towards the 

 tip." "Among the willows in the Dauria; abundant in the month of 

 March." 



My figure is taken from Gould. The egg is from Bildeker. 



The bird has also been figured by Buffon, pi. enl. 656, fig. 2 male; 

 Roux, Ornith. Prov., pi. 109, fig. 1 young, fig. 2 adult; Naumann, 

 Vogel Deutsch., Appendix, vol. xiii., pi. 388; Gould, Birds of Europe, 

 pi. 177; Nilsson, Faun. Laponica, pi. 131, female. 



