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black ; nostrils, like male, covered with feathers. Yellowish 
line of lighter colour over eyes and passing to behind ears. 
Throat yellowish, with defined line of black below it. Top 
of head and upper parts of body fawn-coloured, and feathers 
more or less edged or barred with black, changing into 
small round spots on sides of neck. Below, fawn-coloured, 
no narrow bar of black across breast as in the male. 
Across abdomen, in front of legs, a broad band of chest- 
nut brown. Wing — smaller coverts fawn, with round spots 
of black. Secondaries, under edge of small coverts, reddish 
brown, forming a bar across wing. Bastard wing, with 
black edges, same as male. Quills — first primary longest, 
point slightly produced, second very slightly produced, 
only pointed like others, which gradually diminish in 
length. Outer web of first primary, black; others bluish 
grey, and white at edge, the inner webs being dusky. 
Greater coverts fawn, outer webs black, edged with light 
fawn in male, in female almost white ; inner webs fawn 
colour — axillaries white. Tail fawn, barred with brown. 
Under tail coverts dirty white. Legs feathered like male. 
Nails broad and dark brown. 
Sir William Jardine, in a note to the Edinburgh Philo- 
sophical Journal" for July 1863, quotes a letter in the 
" Times" noticing a specimen in the Derby Museum, Liver- 
pool, which had been sent from Perth, and gives a letter 
from Professor Dickie of Aberdeen, stating that two birds 
had been shot in the beginning of June out of a flock of 
about fifteen, near Munchals, seven miles south of Aberdeen. 
Their stomachs contained turnip and grass seeds. 
Mr H. Osborne sent me the following notice of one shot 
from a small flock near Wick on the 8th of June : — 
A fine specimen of this interesting and very rare 
bird was shot in a field on the farm of Westerseat, near 
Wick, on Monday last, the 8 th inst. A small flock, num- 
bering from ten to twelve individuals, had been observed in 
the same locality a day or two before feeding among the 
young braird. The birds were by no means shy when pur- 
sued. The specimen referred to, which was the only one 
that fell to the shot, was presented to Dr Sinclair, and is to 
