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BROWN LONGBEAK. 
white varied with v/avcs of clear brown : the back 
and scapidars are clear brown, with all the feathers 
tipped with deeper brown : the rump and under tail- 
coverts are white, marked with broad blackish lu- 
nules, which are converted into transverse bands on 
the upper tail-coverts ; all of the tail-feathers them- 
selves are closely rayed with alternate bands of black 
and white : the legs are greenish yellow. During 
the summer this species is distinguished by shades of 
reddish-brown on the top of the head, on the nape, 
the back, and on the scapulars, all of which parts are 
irregularly varied with black and yellowish : the 
cheeks and eyebrovv's are bright reddish : the fore- 
part of the neck and the breast is reddish-brown : the 
wing-coverts are ash-colour, edged with whitish : the 
belly, rump, and tail are the same as in the winter. 
The young in the first year have all the upper parts 
black, except the nape, which is brown ; each feather 
is edged with a broad fillet of bright red : the eye- 
brows and all the under parts are dull wdiitish tinged 
with red ; v/hich colour is most predominant on the 
breast : all the feathers of this part, as well as those 
of the sides of the body and the eyebrows, are spotted 
with very small brown dots ; and the middle tail- 
feathers are tipped with red. 
The native country of this species appears to be 
North America, where it is very abundant : two spe- 
cimens, however, have been killed in Europe, one in 
Sweden, the other in England ; the latter was shot 
on the coast of Devonshire in the beginning of 
October, and having fallen into the hands of that 
zealous ornithologist Montagu, was purchased, with 
