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or less complete black bars, irregular on the inner web ; lesser 
wing-coverts blackish-brown, with sandy margins ; median and 
peater-coverts sandy-buff in appearance, the feathers ashy- 
brown, notched with sandy-buff, and barred with black ; bas- 
tard-wing, primary-coverts, and primaries uniform blackish- 
brown ; the secondaries dark brown, notched with white, 
ininutely on the outer vveb, and more deeply on the inner one- 
the long inner secondaries, like the scapulars, barred with black,^ 
and notched and tipped with white ; centre tail-feathers ashy- 
brown, barred with black, the sub-terminal bar broader than 
the others; remainder of the feathers tawny-buff, broadly tipped 
With whitish, before which is a broad sub-terminal bar of black, 
the feathers having also some narrower bands of black not 
regular or co-terminous ; crown of head blackish, with a mesial 
preak of sandy-buff, all the feathers also edged with sandy-buff- 
hind-neck sandy-buff, narrowly streaked with black; sides of 
race and ep-coverts sandy-buff, with narrow streaks and spots 
ot Wack; cheeks and throat pure white; lower throat, fore-neck 
and chest tawny-buff, the feathers centred with triangular spots 
of black, taking the shape of irregular bars on the latter ; breast 
pd abdomen creamy-white, the sides of the body and flanks 
barred with blackish-brown ; thighs and under tail-coverts uni- 
form isabclline-buff ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white 
regularly barred across with black; quills below ashy, with 
numerous bars and notches of white along the inner web • bill 
pllowish-green, the tip dusky, the edges towards the base yellow • 
legs and tarsi light yellowish-grey, toes rather darker, ’ claws 
brownish-black ; ins dark hazel. Total length, 1 1 inches • 
culmen, i'i5; wing, 6-5 ; tail, 3-3 ; tarsus, 1-75. 
Young.— Similar to the adults, but the buff on the head, jugu- 
lum, wings, tS:c., much deeper; the streaks on the fore-neck and 
jugulum much less distinct, and the back p’ain black the 
feathers bordered with buff. ’ 
Range in Great Britain. — Eight records of the occurrence of 
this American species within our limits are considered to be 
authentic. Although strictly a bird of the New World, it ap- 
pears to wander considerably during its autumn migration, 
and has even been found in Australia. In England it has 
occurred between October and December in the following 
