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wards on each fide, at the back part, in a narrow ftreak toward 

 the hind head : the hind part of the neck and back greyifh 

 white, finely barred with black : fides of the body the fame, 

 but paler : fcapulars black, long, pointed, and margined with 

 very pale cream-colour : wings pale dufky brown ; acrofs them, 

 firft a pale rufous bar, then a broad deep copper- coloured 

 one, edged with black ; and below this a narrow one of white : 

 the two middle tail feathers are black, and more than three inches 

 longer than the reft; the others dufky, edged with white : the 

 under parts of the body are white : vent black ; the fides of it 

 white : legs lead-coloured. 



The female is fmaller. The head and neck dufky, minutely Femai/e. 

 ftreaked with brown : back brown, the feathers margined with 

 pale reddifh white; the fcapulars with pale rufous: wing coverts 

 as the back, but margined deeper with white : acrofs the wing a 

 cream-coloured bar, bounded above and below with white : 

 tail as in the male, but the two middle feathers not elon- 

 gated. 



The young males remain of a greyilh brown, not greatly un- 

 like the plumage of the females, till February, when they firft 

 gain the proper drefs of their fex. 



The male is furnifhed with a fmall labyrinth. 



This is a pretty common fpecies, but not in fuch plenty in Place mc 

 England as in many parts of the continent, in the northern parts of 

 which it breeds. Common in the Ruffian dominions *, as far as 

 Kamtfchatka. In Sweden and Denmark in the fpring ; and breeds 



• In troops of hundreds on the borders of the Do?n — Dccowv. Ruff, u p. 

 162. 



about; 



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