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alternately with dusky-brown and soiled or brownish- white, the 

 ground of the under feathers being nearly pure white. Part of the 

 upper and under tail coverts, sides of the rump, and binder -plumage 

 white. The neck streaked with liver-brown ; flanks, under wing and 

 tail coverts, barred with the same ; the bars on the latter (probably 

 females,) nearly obsolete on some specimens. The breast also spar- 

 ingly and broadly barred with dusky-brown. The lowest row of tail 

 coverts barred with dusky-brown and wliite. — Jlutumiial ov icinter 

 plumage above ashy-brown, the larger feathers (scapulars, greater 

 wing coverts, &c.) margined with rows of brownish-white and 

 dusky spots, on the lower part of the neck, the spots small and al- 

 most exclusively greyish-white. White feathers of the breast mi- 

 nutely mottled with zig-zag lines. — Young female in summer plu- 

 mage. Length 15^ inches. Bill one line short of 2 inches. Scapu- 

 lars, tertials and larger wing coverts with rufous white indented spots, 

 and marginal bars of dusky- brown on the tertials, less distinct on 

 the other large feathers. Beneath, as in the adult, but the white 

 space on the chin and throat more pure and extensive. Long axillary 

 feathers with very delicate pale dusky zig-zag bars. 



