Henry Eliot Howard

“ The sides of the face and neck are light olive green tinged with grey, each small feather on the cheek being furnished with a whitish yellow centre line. The upper parts of the wings are dark brownish grey. The least wing-coverts are tinged with olive green and have very narrow light margins; the medium and greater secondary coverts are tipped with white, forming two distinct bands on the wing. The bastard wing and greater primary coverts are of the same colour as the wing, but not tipped with the whitish colour. ”

“ To Europe it is only an accidental visitor on migration. There are twenty records of its occurrence in Great Britain, nine of which have been in England, seven on Fair Isle, and one respectively at Sumburgh Head, Skerryvore Lighthouse in the outer Hebrides, Tearaght Lighthouse off co. ”