180 MUSCICAPID A. 
Lodge, near Knaresborough, who obtained it in the Valley 
of Desolation, near Bolton Abbey, has the beak black, 
without any white over its base; the head, neck, back, 
and wing-coverts, dark hair brown; wing-primaries brown- 
ish black; greater coverts and tertials edged with dull 
white ; tail-feathers marked like those of the adult male, 
but less bright in colour: under parts dull white; legs, 
toes, and claws, black. 
A young male of the year, killed near London in Sep- 
tember, and then changing his plumage, having obtained in 
part the darker coloured feathers by which the male bird 
is distinguished, has the beak black, no white mark over 
its base; the head, neck, back, and wing-coverts, dark 
hair brown, as in the female, the latter edged with yellow- 
ish white; primaries, secondaries, and tertials, black; the 
latter margined with white, but these edges are not so 
broad as in the adult male: the markings of the tail- 
feathers precisely those of the old male, and black and 
white ; chin and under tail-coverts white; breast, belly, 
and flanks, dull white, tinged with pale brown, _ 
A male killed in the spring, immediately on the arrival 
of the species in this country, has the beak black, with a 
conspicuous white mark above its base; head, including 
the eyes, neck, back, and greater wing-coverts, a mixture 
of dusky and pure black; rump and upper tail-coverts 
smoke-grey ; primaries dusky black ; smaller wing-coverts 
smoke-grey ; greater wing-coverts and tertials broadly 
edged with white; tail-feathers nearly black, the outer 
ones edged with white, as in the adult male first described: 
all the under parts pure white. This bird I believe to be 
in change to his first breeding plumage, and was obtained 
in Tunstall Valley, near Wearmouth, Durham. 
