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with white, lorming a wing-band ; bastard-wing and primary- 
coverts blackish-brown, edged with white at the tips ; quills 
dark-brown with white shafts, a few of the inner jirimaries also 
edged with white near the base; the secondaries dark-brown, 
fringed with white at the tips, and having the base of the inner 
webs white, forming a continuous band with the one on the 
greater coverts ; the long inner secondaries light brown, like 
the scapulars, with the shafts blackish-brown ; crown of head 
brown, like the back, with darker brown centres to the feathers; 
forehead and supra-loral region pure white ; lores dusky-brown ; 
ear coverts and feathers below the eye light brown, with narrow 
streaks of dark brown ; above the ear-coverts a streak of white, 
lined with brown, forming an indistinct eyebrow; cheeks, 
throat, and under surface of body pure white, or slightly ashy 
on the throat and fore-neck ; sides of neck and upper breast 
brown, with slightly darker centres or shaft-streaks ; under 
wing-coverts and axillaries white ; the coverts round the edge 
of the wing dark brown with white margins ; lower primary- 
coverts dull ashy-brown, forming an inconspicuous wing-patch ; 
bill, legs, feet, and claws black ; iris hazel. Total length, 5-2 
inches ; culmen, 07 ; wing, 3-8 ; tail, r6 ; tarsus, o’S. 
Adult Male in Summer Plumage. — Much more rufous than in 
winter, the whole of the feathers of the upper surface being 
sandy-rufous with black centres and white margins to many 
of the scapulars and feathers of the back ; head rufous with 
black centres to the feathers ; the neck also rufous streaked 
with dusky-blackish, these streaks being smaller and less 
distinct on the sides of the face, which are also rufous; a 
slight indication of a whitish eyebrow ; under surface of body 
white, tinged with rufous on the throat, the chest pervaded 
with ashy, and both the throat, fore-neck, and sides of breast 
mottled with dusky spots in the centre of the feathers. Total 
length, 6-0 inches ; culmen, 075 ; wing, 3-8 ; tail, rq ; tarsus, 
o'8. 
Adult Female in Summer Plumage. — Similar to the male, but 
somewhat less distinctly spotted on the breast. Total length, 
6-0 inches; culmen, 07 ; wing, 3'8s ; tail, 1-45 ; tarsus, o'8. 
Young. — Blackish above, with rufous edgings to the feathers, 
and thus somewhat resembling the summer plumage of the 
