44 
Allen’s naturalist’s liurary. 
sus, 1-6. ' ^Uiuiui, I 6, ^ving, 9 Oj tail, 3-5; tar- 
wi“K8lf?jl‘7“i'' >fc« male, dark broa-n, 
tarsus, 1-65. ■’ ^ 7 . 'vmg, 7-6; tail, 2-65 ; 
ITestling.—Uniform dark brown above ■ throat ak-L:t„ • i 
SSacit!'””" “">'“'’■'>'‘>"■1 >>™ “aii* iead-colour; ?M 
t he swolien k„ob on the laltel. The female ha, thf £ ,S 
throat trinttah, b„, has no white on the .ins-speculnm 'H,'; 
Range in Grea^t Britain.-A common winter visitor to our coasi s 
in autumn and winter, when it is found m thousandr IS I- 
may be seen in summer, and the species is said to have bred in 
Earnsley Marshes near Chichester, of recent years Mr SaT 
I'owler shot a drake in August, I Sot whiVU nine- ’ • 
by seven nestlings just able to fly and the 
tion was exhibited by Mr. Howard Saunders 'aS 
the British Ornithologi.sts’ Club on the i8th of ilgf 
riiis IS the only iwobable mstanceof the breeding of the’sco?er 
m England, but it nests regularly in the north of 
Caithness, Sutherland, and north-west Ro^slllre ’ 
Range outside the British Islands. — The Common dh-wf,, <. • 
the Northern Palmarctic Region from iSZ t^Sfnd^ ’ " 
Northern Russia and Siberia as far as the Taimyr Peninsulm 
