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white one. Eyelids, cliin, belly, and vent white; the 

 rest of the under plumage brownish white, streaked 

 on the throat, and transversely barred or waved on 

 the breast, shoulders, flanks, and under tail coverts 

 with clove brown, the bars pointed in the middle. 



Female coloured like the male, but an inch longer. 

 Legs and feet dark lead-colour, the soles inclining to 

 olive; the toes broadly margined with a sort of con- 

 tinuation of the web. Iris hazel. 



Winter dress with fainter spots on the upper plumage, 

 and v/ithout the dark waving transverse bars below; 

 only the fore part of the neck and breast of a cinereous 

 tint, marked with small brown streaks. 



In the young of the year the cinereous prevails 

 above, with a tint of hair-brown on the summit of the 

 head, back, and scapulars; the spots ill defined, and 

 wanting about the head, neck, and breast; the two 

 latter cinereous, very pale on the sides of the neck; 

 rump ash; tail coverts white. Scapulars and tertials 

 edged with brownish white indented spots, with indi- 

 cations of dusky brown bars. Belov/, except the lower 

 part of the neck, wholly Vv^hite." 



My figures of this bird and its egg are from specimens 

 kindly sent me by Mr. Tristram. They are from Dr. 

 Brewer, the celebrated American oologist. The former 

 is a male in summer plumage. 



It has also been figured by Nuttall, Wilson, Audu- 

 bon, Gould, and the authors of the "Fauna Boreali 

 America,na." 



