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the secondary coverts tipped with black. The alula, primary 

 coverts, and primary quills, are brownish-grey ; the outer 

 secondary quills, to the number of nine, with their outer 

 webs duck-green at the base, black toward the end ; the next, 

 or first inner secondary chiefly white, narrowly edged with 

 black ; the rest black, edged with white externally, and grey 

 internally. The upper tail-coverts are black, several of those 

 in the middle broadly edged with white internally. The tail- 

 feathers are brownish-grey, narrowly tipped with white. The 

 lower fore part and sides of the neck are of a delicate lilac, or 

 pale purplish-red colour, tinged with grey ; the breast, abdo- 

 men, and side of the rump, pure white ; the sides finely 

 barred with dark-grey and white, like the back ; the feathers 

 under the tail black ; the lower wing-coverts most delicately 

 dotted with white and grey, the larger coverts pale grey ; the 

 axillars white, mottled with grey. 



Length to end of tail 20| inches ; extent of wings 35 ; 

 wing from flexure lOf ; tail 4\^ ; bill along the ridge l-f-j ; 

 from frontal angles 1\^ ; its height at the base yV > hreadth at 

 the middle -^ ; behind the unguis -f^ ; bare part of tibia ■^^ ; 

 tarsus 1^ ; hind toe y\-, its claw j^ ; second toe 1^, its claw 

 -^ ; third toe 1-f^, its claw ^^ ; fourth toe 1-/^ J its claw -j^. 



Female in Winter. — ^The female is much smaller and 

 differently coloured. The bill, iris, and feet, however, are 

 as in the male. The head and upper neck are yellowish- 

 red, with small greenish-black spots, the feathers being 

 barred with that colour, of Avhich there is more on the upper 

 part of the head. The feathers of the upper parts in general 

 are dusky brown, edged with brownish-red or whitish, and 

 barred with the same. The wings are dusky grey ; the 

 coverts in the part which is white in the male tipped with 

 that colour, the secondary coverts with an indication of the 

 dark terminal bar ; the speculum greyish, without lustre ; 

 the inner secondaries marked somewhat as in the male, but 

 with dark grey in place of black. The tail-feathers brownish- 

 grey, edged with brownish-white. On the lower fore part 

 and sides of the neck the feathers are obscurely barred with 

 reddish-brown and brownish-grey ; the sides are similar ; 



