RUSTIC BUXTING. 
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“111 autumn they should have, according to Temniinck, 
the black feathers of the vertex edged with brown, and 
the median hand of the same tint; on the sides and 
lower part of the neck is a row of small brown spots 
only.” 
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 ferruginous; upper part of 
the body of a brown and russet tint; under parts white, 
vdth some russet spots on the neck; external tail feather 
on each side has a longitudinal and oblique white sjiot 
towards the tip.” 
My figure is taken from Gould. The egg is from 
Badeker. 
The bird has also been figured by Bufifon, pi. enl. 
656, fig. 2, male; Boux, Ornith. Prov., pi. 109, fig. 1, 
young, fig. 2, adult; Naumann, Vogel Deutsch, Ajipen- 
dix, vol. xiii, pi. 388; Gould, Birds of Europe, pi. 177; 
Nilsson, Faun. Laponica, pi. 131, female. 
