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Variety, — Cinclus torquatus. Briss. Orn. 5. 2\(i. pi. 19.^. 2. 
Gallinago auglicana. Briss. Orn. 5. 309. 
La brunette. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 493. 
Le cincle. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 553. Buff. PI. EnL 852. 
Length upwards of seven inches : in summer 
the throat is white ; the forehead, the sides, and fore 
part of the neck, the sides of the head and the 
breast are also white, slightly tinged with red ; the 
feathers on all these parts having a longitudinal 
deep black ray j and those on the top of the head 
being black in the middle and edged with bright red : 
the back, the scapulars, and the greater wing-coverts 
are deep black, surrounded by a broad band of bright 
red, and tipped with ashy-white : the lower parts of 
the body and the vent are deep black, varied during 
the period of incubation with white to a greater or 
less degree, according to the time : the three lateral 
feathers of the under tail-coverts are white on their 
outer webs : the tail-feathers are dusky-grey, edged 
with white. In the winter the plumage assumes the 
following colours : the throat, a streak from the upper 
mandible of the beak to the eye, all the under parts 
of the body, and the three lateral under tail-coverts 
are pure white : the breast is greyish-white : a stripe 
between the beak and the eye and the upper parts of 
the body are grey-brown, with a deeper tinge in the 
centre of all the feathers : the rump, the interme- 
diate feathers of the upper tail-coverts, and the two 
middle tail-feathers are dusky-brown ; the lateral 
tail-feathers are cinereous, edged with white : the 
beak is black : the legs and irides are dusky-black. 
During the spring and autumn the throat, the streak 
