

WALL < 'URETER. 1(51 



head, rump, and under tail coverts, blackish grey; 

 nape and back grey; cheeks, throat, and front of neck 

 deep black; abdomen black; the under tail coverts tipped 

 with white; wing coverts and basal half of the external 

 web of the wing leathers of a deep crimson; the rest 

 of the feathers blackish brown, with two large round 

 spots on the internal web of the first four true primaries, 

 and one on the fifth. Secondaries tipped with white; 

 tail black, with the two most external quills broadly 

 terminated with white, and the others more narrowly 

 with grey. Beak, feet, and iris, black. 



The male in autumn and winter is of a distinct grey 

 above, with a slight russet colour on the head; the 

 throat and chest white, slightly tinged with the same; 

 the dark parts of the abdomen are less deep than in 

 spring. 



The female resembles the male in winter plumage. 



The young of the year have the primaries and tail 

 quills tipped with grey, and the colours above and 

 below less pure than in the adult. After the first moult 

 the two sexes and the young are alike in plumage. 



My figure is taken from a skin in autumn plumage, 

 killed at Geneva, and kindly sent me by Mr. Tristram. 

 The egg is from a specimen sent by the same gentleman. 



The bird has been also figured by Buffon, pi. enl. 

 372, fig. i. male in spring, fig. ii. male in autumn, given 

 as the female. Roux, Ornith. Prov., pi. 238; Bouteil, 

 Ornith. du Dauph, pi. 37, f. 4; Naumann, Vogel Deutsch- 

 ands, pi. 141, male in summer and winter plumage; 

 Gould, B. of E., pi. 239. 



