three rare Species of Britj/h Birds. 4* 



brown ; the back and fcapulars of the fame colour, obfcurely 

 marked with dufky ftrokes ; above the eye, and beneath the ear,, is 

 a lightifh-coloured ftroke; the throat whitifh ; the bread and belly 

 yellowiih white, the former blotched with large duiky fpots ; the 

 fides marked with ftrokes of the fame ; under tail-coverts light 

 brown ; the two middle feathers of the tail dark brown, the others 

 duiky,— the outer one of a dirty yellowiih white on the interior web 

 and the point of the exterior, — in the fecond feather the light colour 

 is juft vifible at the end; the quill feathers and wing-coverts are 

 duiky, (lightly edged with light brown; legs and toes dufky; claws 

 black ; hind claw four tenths of an inch long, and fomewhat crooked. 

 The female refembles the male. 



The young birds are not maturely feathered till after the winter 

 of their firft year ; till then their upper parts have a tinge of oliva- 

 ceous afh-colour; beneath, the lighter parts are yellowiih, and the 

 coverts of the wings more deeply margined with light brown : the 

 bafe of the under mandible and legs lefs dufky. 



I have lately obferved this bird on the coaft of Kent and SulTex. 

 Mr. Lewin having publifhed a figure of this bird already, its egg 

 only is here delineated, Tab. 2. fig. 3. 



G 2 IV. Jcccunt 



