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allen’s naturalist’s library. 
head a trifle darker than the back, with a distinct eyebrow 
of white, inclining to buffy-white above the ear-coverts; 
lores, sides of face, and ear-coverts dark brown, streaked 
with buff below the eye and on the centre of the ear- 
coverts, which have pale shaft-streaks ; cheeks dull white, 
spotted with dark brown, and widening into a patch on the 
sides of the neck, which incline to golden-buff ; a very dis- 
tinct moustachial line of blackish-brown ; under surface of 
body dull white, spotted with dusky brown on the chin, 
streaked on the upper throat very distinctly, but more broadly 
on the fore-neck, breast, and sides of the body ; on the lower 
throat a white space ; centre of breast, abdomen, and under 
tail-coverts, dull white, unspotted, but the latter with con- 
cealed brown centres ; sides of body washed with rich chest- 
nut ; under wing-coverts entirely of this colour ; quills dusky 
below', ashy along the edge of the inner web ; bill dark brown, 
the lower mandible dull yellow towards the base; feet and 
claws yellowish-brown ; iris brown. Total length, 8-5 inches ; 
culmen, 07 ; wing, 4-45 ; tail, 3-1 ; tarsus, 11. 
Adult Female. — Similar to the male. Total length, 8 inches ; 
wing, 4-3. 
During the breeding season the light edges to the wing-coverts 
become abraded, and the spots on the breast become more 
distinct, as the edges of the feathers are worn off. 
Young. — Resembles the adult, but has some pale tips to the 
median and greater wing-coverts. 
Note. — It seems rather absurd that the Redwing should be confounded 
with the Song-Thrush, but that this is frequently done, we can bear witness 
from the number of instances in which the latter bird has been brought 
to us at the British Museum during the last twenty years, to prove that the 
Redwing really nests in this country. Tt may, therefore, Ire pointed out 
that the Redwing has a broad white eyebrow and dark brown ear-coverts, 
and has the sides of the body and the under wing-coverts and axillaries 
ruddy chestnut , and not golden buff vs in the Song-Thrush. 
Range in Great Britain. — A regular autumn and winter visitant, 
arriving sometimes as early as the month of August, and stay- 
ing till March or early in April. The male described above 
was obtained by the late Henry Swaysland, near Brighton, on 
