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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. Ina 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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