PLATE CCVII. 



The length of this bird is ten inches, the female rather larger and 

 snore robuft than the male. 



The male bird is figured in Plate LXXXVIL of this Work ; the 

 female differs from the male chiefly in the colour and markings on 

 the breaft, that part in the male being entirely white, in the female of 

 a warm duiky tint with numerous trail fverfe femicircular pale brown 

 lines or fcallops difpofed in a pretty regular manner over the whole 

 of the throat, breaft, fides., and belly. 



It is fome years fince we defcribed the male of this fpecies : we 

 then mentioned it as a rare bird, nor has later information leffened 

 the accuracy of this remark : within the fpace of many years not more 

 than three or four fpecirnens, and thofe all males, are recorded to 

 have appeared in England. The female is far more rare than the 

 male. 



As this bird has appeared on the eaftern coafts of Britain in the 

 winter, it is conjectured they have ftraggled hither in their migra- 

 tions from the north (where they occur in fummer)to the more foutherq 



regions, where they pafe the winter. 



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