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feathers, and obsolete blackish shaft-stripes, somewhat more 
distinct on the lower back and rump; scapulars like the back; 
sides of lower back and rump white ; upper tail-coverts black- 
ish, edged and tipped with white, the lateral ones entirely white; 
le‘=ser wing-coverts blackish ; median ones ashy, broadly edged 
with white, and with a blackish shaft-line ; greater coverts 
blackish, narrowly edged and broadly tipped with white, form- 
ing a broad white band across the wing ; bastard-wing and 
primary-coverts blackish ; the outer primaries narrowly, but the 
inner ones broadly, tipped with white ; quills with white shafts, 
and a broad white base to the feathers ; the secondaries edged 
with white at the tip ; the primaries ashy-white for the greater 
part of the inner web, the elongated inner secondaries white on 
both webs ; centre tail-feathers ashy-grey, blackish towards the 
tips with white shafts and margins to the feathers ; remainder 
of tail-feathers dusky-brown, whitish on the inner webs, mar- 
gined externally and having white shafts ; crown of head like 
the back ; a broad frontal band, lores, eyebrow, sides of face, 
and under surface of body pure white ; sides of neck light 
ashy-grey like the back; under wing-coverts and axillaries pure 
white - quills below dusky whitish along the inner web ; bill 
and feet olive-black ; iris dark brown. Total length, 7 inches; 
culmen, ro5; wing, q'TS 1 tail, rS; tarsus, 0-9; middle toe 
and claw, 0-7. 
Adult Male in Summei Plumage. — Differs from the winter plu- 
ma<re in being mottled and not uniform, the upper surface 
being cinnamon-rufous, mottled with black centres to the 
feathers which have hoary whitish or ashy edges ; the inner 
secondaries cinnamon-rufous like the scapulars and back; sides 
of lower back and lateral upper tail-coverts pure white ; sides 
of face throat, and sides of breast deep cinnamon-rufous, 
motded with black centres to the feathers ; rest of under sur- 
face white. Total length, 6-5 inches ; culmen, 0 9 ; wing, 4 9 1 
tail, 1-9 ; tarsus, 0-9 ; middle toe and claw, 0-75. 
Adult Female iu Summer Plumage — Similar to the male, but has 
not quite so much bright rufous in the plumage, the fore-neck 
bein^ barred with blackish. Total length, 8 inches ; culmen, 
1-05°; wing, 4-9; ‘ail, 1-95 i ‘arsus, i ; middle toe and claw, 
0 - 8 . 
