LAPLAND LONGSPUR. 
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streaked with deep black. Foreneck and breast, black, 
mixed with grayish 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 tw r o 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, 
grayish rusty, with blackish spots, the rusty predomi- 
nating 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, grayish, spotted 
with black ; inferior parts, white ; the flanks with longi- 
tudinal blackish marks. 
The young of both sexes, during the first year, are 
of a yellowish brown above, tinged with grayish, 
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 streak 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 secondaries 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 brow r n ; the hind nail, though still longer 
than its toe, is much shorter, and not quite so straight. 
