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round or oval spots ; tlie secondaries are barred 
with white, tinted with reddish brown at the 
margin of the bands. The tail is not so ample 
as in Tengmalmi, and is crossed with about four 
ochraceous bands ; the under parts yellowish white, 
streaked or clouded with liver brown, the mark- 
ings indistinct from the loose webs of one feather 
lying over another ; the tarsi arc yellowish white. 
In this species, the bill seems to be yellow in a 
fresh state ; in the preceding, it is gray or bluish 
white. Length, from crown to extremity of tail, 
about eight and a half inches. 
This bird can also only be looked on as a 
straggler, and the localities where specimens have 
been killed have not been authentically recorded. 
Mr Gould, however, assures me that several fresh 
specimens were to be seen in, London during last 
spring. One came into the possession of Mr 
Leadbetter.* 
* Mr Yarrell, in Iiis Third Number, mentions several 
instances of its occurrence in England. 
