W E S T E l
F rom the circumstance o f an example of this. very rare I>ick havi:
Caisted near Yarmouth in Norfolk, about which period another spet
bafii much pleasure in figuring .t as an interesting 'addition to .out iw
:Mr figure o f the fir^t-mentioncd specimen-, (now in ¡he Norwich Muse
Clarke, Esq-, to the Saffron Walden Natural History Society, in whos
we-arie indebted-for the loan of the drawing. V
The above is the only instance of its capture ra Gretjt Britain, and
Continent. I t is a native-of Northern AsL, Siberia, Kamtsehatka, an
it is said to breed in high and precipitous socks, and to ii; in sxtensit
We have'follOwed Mr. Selby and others in placing it provisionally iu \
man, nqkhaving^iecn the bird itself, we are unable to decide upon its
from its general contour, the disposition of kscoiouring, arM the curved
that it more properly ijekmgs to the genus Som-.‘iter;a.
Space between the bill and the eye green,, and on the back of the he
a short crest; threat atid.im ju g u la rsjk s t behind theeye hlack ■ the
throat surrounded b y 'b a n d ' o f black glossed with green ; back, fter
primaries and tail brownish black; lower part of the neck; part of
white; breast arid all the under surface .«rufous, becoming darker as it
curved; the shaft and the narrow inner web white; the outer web hr
brown; bill and legs, blackish grey.