2go BRITISH BIRDS. 
the hinder part of the neck : the chin, throat, crown 
of the head, and hinder part of the neck to the 
back, are black: two ftripes of white fall down 
from behind each eye, on the fides of the neck, and 
meet in the middle : the other parts of the neck, 
and the upper part of the breaft, are of a deep rufly 
red, and the latter is terminated by two narrow 
bands of white and black : the back and wings are 
dulky ; the greater coverts edged with grey : fides 
and lower part of the breaft, black : belly, upper 
and under tail coverts, white : legs dulky. 
This beautiful fpecies is a native of RulSa and 
Siberia, whence they migrate fouthward in the 
autumn, and return in the fpring : they are faid to 
frequent the Cafpian fea, and are fuppofed to winter 
in Perfia. They are very rare in this country, on- 
ly three of them (fo far as the author’s knowledge 
extends) having ever been met with in it, andthofe 
all by the late M. Tunftall, Efq. of Wycliffe, in 
Yorklhire, in whofe valuable mufeum the firft of 
thefe birds, in high prefervation, was placed. * It 
was Ihot near London in the beginning of the hard 
froft in the year 1766 ; and another of them was 
about the fame time taken alive near Wycliffe, and 
kept there for feveral years in a pond among the 
Ducks, where it became quite tame and familiar. 
Mr Tunftall informed Mr Latham of thefe particu> 
* The foregoing figure was taken from this fpeciniem 
