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The bill, feet, and claws are pale greyish-brown .• the iris 

 light brown. The upper parts are brownish-grey, with small 

 transverse pointed spots, and numberless undulated dots of 

 blackish-brown, and greyish-white markings. A broad band 

 of elongated brownish-black spots extends from the occiput to 

 the middle of the back. The tail, which is dotted and mottled 

 like the back and wings, has five transverse undulated bands 

 of brownish-black, the last narrowest and subterminal. The 

 quills are brown, marked on the outer webs and inner margins 

 with broad bars or spots of pale red. The fore part and sides 

 of the neck are pale greyish-yellow, marked with transverse 

 narrow bars of brownish-black ; the sides of the body similarly 

 coloured; the breast paler or whitish, with fewer sagittate dusky 

 spots ; the lower tail-coverts yellowish-white, with transverse 

 bars of dusky. 



Length to end of tail 7 inches ; extent of wings 11, bill 

 along the ridge -^^^ along the edge of lower mandible f\ ; wing 

 from flexure Sj ^ ; tail 3^^ ; tarsus -^^ ; first toe ^i, its claw j| ; 

 second toe j\, its claw f^ ; third toe ||, its claw j| ; fourth 

 toe /^j, its claw ^%. 



Female. — The female differs very little from the male, the 

 tints being merely somewhat duller, and the longitudinal band 

 on the neck and back of less extent. An individual shot about 

 eight miles from Edinburgh, in the beginning of May 1824, 

 was as follows. Bill and feet pale brownish-grey. The upper 

 parts brownish-grey, with transverse markings of blackish- 

 brown and whitish, the latter terminal ; the whole plumage 

 minutely dotted ; a line of brownish-black spots from the occi- 

 put to the middle of the back ; a few roundish spots of whitish 

 on the wing-coverts ; tail yellowish-grey, barred with five un- 

 dulated black bands ; the quills brown, their outer webs and 

 inner margins with a broad bar of pale red ; the fore-neck and 

 sides pale greyish-yellow, transversely barred with brownish- 

 black, the rest of the lower parts yellowish- white, with triangu- 

 lar dark spots , excepting the lower tail-coverts, which are simi- 

 larly barred. 



