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LAPLAND LONGSPUR. 
The young of both sexes, during the first year, are of a 
yellowish brown above, tinged with greyish, streaked and 
spotted with blackish, the shafts of the feathers being of that 
colour ; the cheeks and auriculars are brownish, the latter 
mixed with black ; a small blackish spot, that spreads as the 
bird advances in age, is already visible near the opening of the 
ears ; above the eye is a broad streali of pale brownish ; the 
throat is yellowish white, slightly streaked with brown, and 
with a blackish line *on each side coming from the corner of 
the lower mandible ; the lower portion of the neck and breast 
is of a ‘dingy, reddish white, more intense, and thickly spotted 
with blackish brown on the breast and flanks ; the belly and 
vent are almost pure whitish. The wing-coverts and second- 
aries are blackish brown, margined with dark rusty, and tipped 
with white ; the primaries are dusky brown, paler at the edge. 
The tail-feathers are dusky, and also margined with deep rusty ; 
the outer bearing a reddish white conic spot, which is merely 
longitudinal, and narrow on the next. The bill is entirely of 
a dirty yellowish brown ; the feet are dusky brown ; the hind 
nail, though still longer than its toe, is much shorter, and not 
quite so straight. The figures represent an old male, and a 
young female. 
