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emarginated at tip, dusky, edged witli rusty ; tlie wings, wken 
closed, reach to three-fourths the tail ; the tail is two and a half 
inches in length, rather forked, and of a blackish colour ; the 
outer feather on each side with a white cuneiform spot ; and 
the outer web almost entirely white ; the second with a white 
cuneiform spot only. The hind nail is almost an inch long. 
The adult female is somewhat smaller than the male. In 
spring, she has the top of the head, the shoulders, back, and 
wing-coverts, brownish black, the feathers being edged with 
rusty ; the sides of the head, blackish, intermixed with rusty ; 
over the eyebrows a whitish line, as in the male, tinged with 
rusty; the nucha and rump are brownish rusty, with small 
black spots ; the throat is white, encircled with brown ; re- 
maining inferior parts, white ; wings and tail as in the other 
sex. 
The male in autumn and winter has the bill brownish 
yellow ; irides and feet, brownish. Head, black, varied with 
small spots of rusty; auriculars, partly encircled with black 
feathers ; throat, yellowish white, finely streaked with deep 
black. Foreneck and breast, black, mixed with greyish white ; 
the line passing through the eye down the breast, yellowish 
white, becoming darker on the breast ; lower surface from the 
breast, white, spotted on the flanks. Wings, deep blackish 
chestnut, crossed by two white lines ; primaries on the inside 
at tip, margined with white. Tail, forked, brownish black, all 
the feathers margined with rusty, the two outer with a white 
cuneiform spot at tip. 
The dress of the female in autumn and winter is as follows : 
Head, and neck above, shoulders, and back, greyish rusty, with 
blackish spots, the rusty predominating on the neck and rump ; 
the superciliar line, whitish rusty, uniting with a white streak 
from the angle of the bill ; throat, white each side, with a 
brownish line ; upper part of the breast, greyish, spotted with 
black ; inferior parts, white ; the flanks with longitudinal 
blackish marks. 
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