370 Dr. A. Hall on the Mammals and Birds 



Dorsal aspect. Crown, interscapulary region and rump, black- 

 ish brown margined with greyish white, which is tinted with 

 rufous on the crown and back ; nape of neck cinereous streaked 

 with blackish brown ; short scapulars blackish brown edged with 

 pale rufous, and a couple of subterminal spots of the same colour, 

 and tipped with cinereous ; long scapulars plain dusky ; great 

 and small wing coverts dusky, the lower row of the former broadly 

 tipped with white, and all of them with pale edgings ; tail coverts 

 white elegantly barred with blackish brown ; tail square, cinere- 

 ous ; primaries clove brown, white on the internal vanes towards 

 the base, with white shafts, and edged with white towards the 

 centre of the outer vanes of all except the first and second. 



Ventral aspect. Line from the angle of the mouth to the eye 

 blackish brown ; auriculars blackish brown ; line from the nos- 

 trils to, over, and beyond the eye above the auriculars, pale 

 rufous ; throat, breast and sides pale rufous, with faint bars of 

 blackish brown in the latter situation ; belly and vent white 

 tinged with rufous; flanks white with zigzag bars of blackish 

 brown ; tail coverts white with a subterminal triangular spot of 

 blackish brown ; axillaries cinereous with a terminal band of a 

 deeper tint and tipped with white. 



1st primary longest ; long scapulars longer than the 4th, and 

 shorter than the 5th ; the bill is straight, flattened, and rather 

 spoon-shaped at the tip ; tip of the upper inflected over the lower 

 and \\ inch long; legs of moderate size, stout; toes free, mar- 

 gins serrated. Length lOj inches; alar expanse 21 inches. The 

 above description is taken from a specimen which is moulting 

 from its summer to its winter plumage. Another in its complete 

 winter dress lies beside me, constituting the T. cinerea of Wil- 

 son. The wholt) dorsal aspect, including the long scapulars and 

 tail is cinereous tipped with cinereous white ; the lower row of 

 great wing coverts tipped with white ; tail coverts white barred 

 with cinereous, and the ventral aspect is white tinged with rufous 

 very dilutely, with specks of dusky on the throat breast, cheeks 

 and sides. The rictu-orbital streak brownish black, and the streak 

 from the nostrils to, over, and beyond the eye, above the auricu- 

 lars, white. Perhaps there is not a bird whose varieties of plu- 

 mage in its diff'erent ages and states, have caused it to be described 

 under so many diff'erent names. 



