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tipped with pale gray or grayish white; upper tail-coverts pale buffy 
brown, irregularly streaked and barred with black; middle rectrices 
black, their distal portion, abruptly, deep cinnamon or sayal brown 
with a subterminal lunulate bar of black and a terminal margin of 
buff or cinnamon-buff, the cinnamon area usually with a few small 
irregular markings of black; lateral rectrices dull buffy whitish with 
inner half of inner web dusky broadly tipped with white and with a 
dusky subterminal bar—the intermediate rectrices intermediate in 
coloration between that of the middle and lateral pairs; axillars and 
under wing-coverts white, sometimes immaculate but usually with a 
few small dusky grayish markings, the coverts near the outer edge 
of the wing with a few transverse spots or bars of dusky; bill dusky 
terminally, brownish in dried skins (grayish blue in life)? basally; 
legs and feet brownish (in dried skins); iris dark brown; legs and | 
feet light brownish in dried skins, pale greenish blue in life.* 
Young.—‘‘Differs from the adult in being more rufous, especially 
on the throat and neck. The black markings on the neck are more 
broken up and mottled by rufous bars, and the pale outer bands 
[stripes] along the scapulars are not so wide.” 
Downy young.—‘‘Covered with down of a chestnut color, inter- 
spersed with black along the back, and prettily variegated with silvery 
tips to the feathers [sic]; below the eye is a whitish streak, bordered 
with lines of black; under surface of body bright chestnut, with a 
black spot on the throat and a black line across the foreneck.’’”? 
Adult male.—Wing, 123-132 (126.5); tail, 53.5-61 (57.2); exposed 
culmen, 60-70.5 (64.4); tarsus, 27.5-31.5 (29.9); middle toe, 28-32 
"(29.8).° : 
Adult female.—Wing, 122-129.5 (126); tail, 50.5-62.5 (55.9); ex- 
posed culmen, 62-73.5 (66.6); tarsus, 28.5-31 (29.8); middle toe, 
29.5-31.5 (30.6).4 
Europe and northern Asia, north to about latitude 70° N.; breeding 
in Iceland, Faroes, British Islands, and eastward to and including 
Siberia, on Caucasus range at 7,000 feet, in Turkestan, etc.; wintering 
@ According to Macgillivray. bd Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 638, 639. 
¢ Seventeen specimens. @ Ten specimens. 
. , Bx Middl 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. | posed | Tarsus. e 
culmen toe. 
MALES. 
Four adult males from Europe (including one from Egypt)....} 128.1 57.6 66. 2 30.5 30.7 
Thirteen adult males from eastern Asia. ..-........-.-....22--+ 126 57 63.8} 29.8 29.7 
FEMALES. : 
Three adult females from Europe.........--...2...0eeneeeeeeee 126.8 56.3 69.8 29 30.5 
Seven adult females from eastern Asia. ...........22..220-2000+ 125.7 55.7 65. 2 30.1 30.6 
