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rump, its different call betrays it if at a distance. 
Spring, autumn, and winter, are the seasons when 
it is generally met with, though there seems to be 
evidence of the bird occasionally breeding with us. 
Mr. Yarrell states having obtained this bird in 
June, in the height of its summer plumage, from 
Norfolk, and having seen the young, from the same 
locality, in July. It has been in the autumn, after 
their return from breeding, that we have met with 
it on our shores, and have killed it on both sides of 
the Solway, either in small parties, or mixed with 
the Purre, or feeding by some muddy streams, in a 
salt marsh which they seemed fond of frequenting, 
and, when come upon unawares, would utter a 
shrill lengthened whistle, very different from that 
of the Purre under similar circumstances. In Ire- 
land, Mr. Thompson considers it as a regular sum- 
mer visitant. It inhabits .also Northern Europe and 
America, extending there from the Arctic Circle 
even to the southern boundary. The East Indian 
Islands are given to it by Temminck, and the Zoolo- 
gical Society have specimens from Tangiers.* 
Specimens killed on the shores of the Solway, in 
autumn, have the head and neck hair-brown, shad- 
ing into dark clove-brown on the back and wings, 
each feather in the first being darker in the centre, 
and on the latter, together with the tertials and 
coverts, being broadly edged with yellowish-white ; 
the rump and upper tail-coverts pure white; the 
tail itself hair-brown, the feathers tipped and edged 
* Yarrell. 
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