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distributed. In Europe, its peculiar localities 
have perhaps not been remarked with sufficient 
accuracy ; it, so far as we can trace, is most 
abundant in the northern countries, but extends 
its migrations to Italy. Its range does not seem 
to extend to North America. 
Specimens of this bird killed in Sutherlandshire 
in the month of June, have the upper parts dark 
umber brown ; the feathers edged with brownish 
yellow, inclining to grayish yellow on the back 
of the neck ; the wings brownish black, and having 
the quills after the fourth or fifth edged on the 
outer webs with pure white, which forms a con- 
spicuous pure line along the wing ; the greater 
coverts are broadly tipped with pale yellowish 
white, which forms a bar ; the tail is much forked, 
brownish black, the inner webs of the feathers 
paler, and the outer webs of the base white ; the 
rump is rich purplish red, almost inclining to 
scarlet ; the cheeks and throat are pale yellowish 
brown, paler on the breast, and shading into 
nearly pure white on the belly and vent ; upon 
the breast and flanks the centre of the feathers 
are umber brown, giving a broken or streaked 
appearance to these parts. In the females the 
colouring of the rump is less vivid, and the 
general marking less deep and distant. In speci- 
mens of the same species, shot during winter in 
the Lowlands, the yellowish brown edgings to the 
feathers on the upper parts is broader, rendering 
the colour more subdued, the tint on the rump 
