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rump and upper tail-coverts pure white, as well as the basal 
two-thirds of the tail, which is tipped with white, before which 
is a broad band of black, gradually diminishing in size towards 
the outer feathers, and entirely disappearing on the two outer- 
most rectrices, which are entirely white; wing-coverts light 
brown, a little darker than the back, the greater series white, 
with brown bases; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 
black, the secondaries pure white, the innermost light ashy- 
brown like the back; forehead and a broad superciliary band en- 
circling the nape, creamy-white ; crown of head and nape black ; 
lores and a streak behind the eye black ; below the eye a line 
of white; cheeks and ear-coverts pale isabelline-brown, extend- 
ing on to the sides of the neck and round the hind-neck, as well 
as over the throat; lower-throat, fore-neck, and breast dark ashy- 
brown or stone-grey ; lower breast and abdomen black, with a 
patch of chestnut on the lower abdomen ; lower flanks, thighs, 
under tail-coverts, under wing-coverts, and axillaries pure white ; 
primaries black below ; bill and feet black ; iris dark brown. 
Total length, 12 inches; culmen, i'3; wing, 8'o ; tail, 3-5; 
tarsus, 2‘3S. 
Adnlt Female Does not differ from the male in plumage. 
Total length, 12 inches; culmen, i‘25 ; wing, 7 '8; tail, 3 ’4; 
tarsus, 2 ’35. 
Young. — Differs from the adults in being rather darker brown, 
and in having sandy margins to the feathers of the upper sur- 
face ; the head brown like the back ; lores white ; under sur- 
face of body white, with no black on the breast or red on 
the abdomen, and the chest mottled with black edgings to the 
feathers or with heart-shaped spots in the centre of the latter; bill 
black ; feet black, very faintly tinged with lake in many speci- 
mens, though this colour is scarcely observable; iris blackish 
or very dark brown. 
Range in Great Britain ^This species has only occurred once, 
as far as is known, within our limits. The history of the speci- 
men in question is given by Mr. Howard Saunders as follows : 
“ In the autumn of the year i860, or thereabouts, an imma- 
ture example of this south-eastern species was shot from 
among a flock of Lapwings near St. Michael’s-on-Wyre in 
Lancashire, and having been subsequently placed in a case 
