3 EA! LAPLAND LONGSPUR. 
The dress of the female in autumn and winter is as follows: 
Head, and neck above, shoulders, and back, greyish rusty, with 
blackish spots, the rusty predominating on the neck and rump ; 
the superciliar line, whitish rusty, uniting with a white streak 
from the angle of the bill; throat, white each side, with a 
brownish line; upper part of the breast, greyish, spotted with 
black ; inferior parts, white; the flanks with longitudinal 
blackish marks. 
The young of both sexes, during the first year, are of a 
yellowish brown above, tinged with greyish, streaked and 
spotted with blackish, the shafts of the feathers being of that 
colour; the cheeks and auriculars are brownish, the latter 
mixed with black ; a small blackish spot, that spreads as the 
bird advances in age, is already visible near the opening of the 
ears; above the eye isa broad streak of pale brownish; the 
throat is yellowish white, slightly streaked with brown, and 
with a blackish line on each side coming from the corner of 
the lower mandible ; the lower portion of the neck and breast 
is of a dingy reddish white, more intense, and thickly spotted 
with blackish brown on the breast and flanks; the belly and 
vent are almost pure whitish. ‘lhe wing-coverts and second- 
aries are blackish brown, margined with dark rusty, and tipped 
with white; the primaries are dusky brown, paler at the edge. 
The tail-feathers are dusky, and also margined with deep rusty ; 
the outer bearing a reddish white conic spot, which is merely 
longitudinal, and narrow on the next. The bill is entirely of 
a dirty yellowish brown; the feet are dusky brown; the hind 
nail, though still longer than its toe, is much shorter, and not 
quite so straight. The figures represent an old male and a 
young female. 
