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ish ; feet more decidedly flesh-colour ; fore part and sides 
of the head, fore part of the neck, and under surface in 
general pure white ; a few pale brown spots still remaining 
on the sides, the axillaries, and under- wing-coverts nearly 
as before ; ground-colour of the head and hind neck white, 
slightly tinged with ash, streaked with pale brown ; ocular 
bristles black; back confusedly mottled with pale brown and 
yellowish-white, tinged with ash and purplish-brown, having 
somewhat of a transverse direction ; there being sereral 
bars on each feather, the tips still whitish, those of the sca- 
pulars white to a considerable extent ; wings deeper than 
the back, hair-brown, tinged with grey and a little purple, 
the spots arranged in irregular bars ; the tips and inter- 
vals reddish-white, tinged with brown ; primaries blackish- 
brown ; secondaries pale brown, tinged with grey, and 
tipped with white; the proximal ones barred with deep 
brown and whitish at the end ; rump and tail-coverts 
whitish, slightly mottled with pale brown ; tail-coverts near- 
ly all white, with a few very deep brownish-black spots and 
patches ; an irregular bar of the same deep brown at the 
end, the tips whitish. This description is also taken from 
a specimen, for which I am indebted to Mr John Wilson. 
At the age of two years. — After the autumnal moulting, 
the back and wings begin to assume their deep colour; 
they are then of a deep purplish-brown, variegated with 
irregular brown and grey spots ; the tail is marbled with 
brownish ; the beak assumes the red spot, with black in the 
middle; the rest is a livid yellow, patched with black. 
Temm. 
At the third autumnal moulting, the plumage is com- 
pleted. Temm. 
Coww^ry.— -Inhabits the north of Europe and America, 
