and some other British Birds. Tt§ 



cinereous-brown; the latter is cinereous at the base of the 

 feathers with the tips brown: the smaller coverts are marked in the 

 same manner as the scapulars; the greater coverts are cinereous- 

 brown, the exposed part of each feather darkest, but not tipped 

 like the others : the eight prime quills are dusky-black, the last 

 with a dash of cinereous ; the first is very short, the third by far 

 the longest : secondary quills cinereous-brown above, pale be- 

 neath, with three remarkable dusky- black bars across them, 

 nearly in parallel lines, each half an inch in breadth j one only of 

 which is to be seen on the upper side of the wing, the others 

 being hid by the coverts, this is about two inches from the tips 

 of the feathers ; on the under part of the wing two of these bars 

 are very conspicuous, the other close to the base is much paler, 

 and hidden by the under coverts, the first row of which is white, 

 with a large dusky bar across their middle ; the rest are bright 

 bay, more or less spotted, barred, or margined with white : the 

 under parts of the body, including the under tail coverts and 

 thighs, white, with a broad streak of bright bay down the shaft 

 of each feather : under scapulars with broad alternate bars of 

 bay and white : the tail is somewhat cuneiform, the two middle 

 feathers dark brown, or dusky, the rest dark ash-colour, palest 

 on the two or three outer feathers, which have also their inner 

 webs approaching to white; all except the two middle have 

 four equidistant bars on the inner web, taking in the shaft; these 

 on the two outer feathers are bay, the rest more or less dusky, 

 with a ferruginous tinge on those at the base : legs orange yel- 

 low, rather long and slender: claws small black. 



In the* original description of this species*, taken from a 

 cased specimen, the greater coverts are, by mistake, said to 



* Ornithological Dictionary. 



have 



