386 PARIDA. 
and Essex. It is found also in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, 
Norfolk, and Lincolnshire ; but has not been traced in this 
country, as before observed, north of the Humber. Pen- 
nant says it is found, though rarely, in Sweden; but as 
this bird does not appear in the works of Muller, Brisson, 
or Nilsson, referring to the ornithology of Denmark, Norway, 
and Sweden, or in the recently published Fauna of Scandi- 
navia by the naturalist last named, I am induced to suppose 
that Pennant was mistaken on this point. It is very abun- 
dant in Holland; and numbers are brought alive from that 
country to the London Markets for sale : the price is usually 
four or five shillmgs a pair; and the birds are attractive 
in confinement from the beauty of the plumage, their graceful 
form, and general sprightliness. They are not very common 
either in France, Provence, Italy, or Sicily ; but are found 
on the marshy borders of the Black and the Caspian seas. 
In the adult male, when alive, the beak and irides are of 
a most delicate orange colour; the head, neck, and ear- 
coverts, pearl-grey ; descending from the space between the 
base of the beak and the eye is a black pendent whisker, or 
moustache, of three quarters of an inch in length, and 
ending in a point; back, greater wing-coverts, and upper 
tail-coverts, fawn-colour ; the smaller wing-coverts black ; 
the primaries greyish brown, with narrow white outer 
edges; the tertials with broad external edges of fawn 
colour, bounding a black stripe; the internal webs being 
buffy white; the middle tail-feathers three inches long, the 
others shorter and graduated ; the outside tail-feather one 
inch and a half long, black at the base, and white at the 
end; the two next pairs white on the outer webs, and 
buffy white on the inner webs; the other six nearly uniform 
fawn colour. Chin, throat, and breast, white, tinged with 
grey, and passing into yellowish white on the belly; the 
