I.ITTLl-: I’.UXTIXO. 
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Its habits are no doubt siinilar to those of the 
closely-allied species which iudiahit the northern local- 
ities, hut I am not able to add anything authoritatively 
upon the subject. 
By the kindness of ]M..Verreaux, of Paris, I have 
been hivoured with a series of four specimens of this 
bird, three marked Europe, and one “Mer cV OcJiotysk, 
$ , ?” I have figured this last specimen, and the male 
in breeding plumage. The other two specimens are 
only distinguished by the less amount of russet on the 
throat in one, and its absence in the other, which 
I presume represent the more or less perfect winter 
plumage. 
The male in breeding plumage has the top of the 
head, cheeks, and throat rich russet red, with a broad 
black band stretching from the base of the beak over 
each eye to the occiput, where it joins a collar of 
cream- colour, which passes entirely round the base of 
the neck. Upper parts of the body dark brown, 
mingled with light russet, so as to shew a mottled 
appearance of those colours on the back, with the 
broad tertials nearly brown black; primaries rich hair 
brown, with their tips tinged with russet, and the 
outer web lightly edged with cream-colour; secondaries 
same colour, edged with a band of russet externally; 
rump greyish browm. Tail brown, the most external 
quill nearly all white, the second having a wedge- 
shaped band of that colour on the base of the broad 
inner Aveb, the base of the wedge being at the distal 
end of the feather. Crop and flanks cream-colour, 
thickly covered with longitudinal marks of black 
brown; abdomen grey white; under tail coverts cream- 
colour. 
Schlegcl describes the beak of a blackish horn-colour. 
