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primary-coverts, the secondaries pale and moie the 
?ips the long inner ones mottled like the scapulars ; tail-feathers 
pointed uniform dusky-brown, with pale sandy-buff margins , 
?rown of head and nape black, scarcely 
and bordered by a broad superciliary band of sandy-buff, the 
lores and feathers round *2 eye being blackish ; cheeks and 
ear-coverts dull white, spotted with black, ^ ^lac 
line along the upper cheeks; chin and upper-throat wh te 
sides of neck and hind-neck earthy-brown, 
with blackish, and separating the head 
throat and fore-neck pale rufous-brown, spotted and streaked 
whh black the sides of the breast and flanks being similarly 
marked breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts pure white ; 
the latter with a few dusky streaks; under wing-coverts ashy 
ivbitish wiTh dusky bases ; axillaries pure white ; lower pnniary- 
coverts’ and quill-lining dull ashy. Total length, rS '^ches , 
culmen I’d ; wing, 4-35 i °' 9 - 
Adult Female.— Similar to the male. Total length, 7-5 inches ; 
culmen, r6 ; wing, 4‘i i ^'1 > tarsus, 0-95. 
Wiuter Flumage.-Scarcely to be 
.,i,.r>->->rrf> pxrent bv the greater amount of blackish moti 
W ^the bar’^ oT?L Lndef ^ and the pnerally more 
rufescent Slour. The pale bands on the back are brighter 
but soon fade with exposure and wear to the paler tints of 
spring and summer dress. 
Eauge outside the British Islands.-The present species breeds 
in^he Arctic Regions from the Dovrefjeld and the tundras of 
T n„iand above the limits of forest-growth ; and as it has been 
met with in Eastern Siberia, where Middendorf found it on the 
Boganida, south of the 'Faimyr Peninsula in 70 N. lat., Mr 
Seebohm is probably right in supposing that it oests m the 
Arctic Re«ions from the Atlantic to the Pacific. He dM not, 
however find it breeding either on the Petchora or *2 
Yen e sai Valley. In winter it passes in numbers to the Medi- 
