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white, and the ufual parts, except the crown, black j but the reft 

 of the body is variegated with white and black. 



In the fecond year the neck and breaft are fpotted black and 

 white: and the crown black. 



In the third, the colours are nearly as when in full plumage, 

 but lefs vivid, and a few fpots of black ftill remaining on the 

 neck : the crown black, and bifid at the back part. 



The full-grown males alfo vary a little, ibme of them having 

 the bafe of the wings, and middle of the back, black : one with 

 this laft character is in my pofieffion. 



The female weighs three pounds and a half. Has a bill like that Female, 



of the male : general colour of the plumage reddifh brown, barred 

 acrofs with black : hind part of the neck marked with longitudinal 

 dufky ftreaks : on the wings two bars of white : belly deep brown, 

 indiftinftly marked with black: tail dufky: legs black. 



This fex likewife varies in fome fpecimens, having feveral 

 fpots of white in the body : others with the neck and belly afh- 

 coloured, and the lines on the wings obfcure, and in fome few no 

 traces of them left. 



The young of both fexes are the fame, being covered with a Young. 



kind of hairy down : throat and breaft whitifh : and a cinereous 

 line from the bill through the eyes to the hind head. 



This fpecies frequents the northern region, even to the higheft la- Place and 

 titudes yet difcovered. In this ifland it is fcarce ever met with j but 

 is found in the Wefiern IJles of Scotland, and on the Farn IJles ■, in 

 thefe laft it breeds, and is faid to lay feldom more than five eggs*, 



* They muft now and then lay as far as eight; for it has been obferved, that 

 no lefs than fixteen have been found in one neft, with two ftmalss, who agree 

 remarkably well together. — Von Trcil. Icel. p. 144. 



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