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YKLLOW-lilt()\VKl) lUNl'lNt;. 
is, however, accidental. One specimen Avas shot in the 
neighbourhood of Lille, in France, and is preserved in 
the museum of that town. 
Of the propagation and habits of this species I am 
sorry that I cannot refer to any authentic details. 
The folloAving description is from Dcgland: — “The 
male has the top of the head black, with a longitu- 
dinal Avhite line along the middle, Avhich mingles 
behind with a kind of half collar of the same colour; 
a large and long citron yellow hand above each eye; 
upper parts of the body ferruginous hroAvnish grey, 
darker in the middle of the feathers, Avhich are russet 
on their' borders; inferior parts grey white on the 
neck, with a kind of breast-plate on the crop of brown 
and russet feathers; the abdomen pure grey Avhite, 
with small spots of brown at the base of the crop and 
on the flanks; primaries brownish, bordered with russet 
outside. Tail quills brown, three-quarters of the most 
external white, Avith the end brown outside; the tAvo 
next to the external have the distal half Avhite. Beak 
and feet broAvnish ; iris brown.” 
It has been flgured by Pallas, and by De Selys, in 
the Faune Beige, (1842,) vol. i, pi. 4, fig. 1. 
