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the very peculiar manner in which the old bird rose, the re- 

 luctance it evinced to leave the spot, and its hovering over 

 the place it had risen from, instead of flying off to the distance 

 of nearly a hundred yards, as it usually does. 



The male is distinguished by the greater extent of the white 

 mark on the primaries and outer tail-feathers ; in the other 

 parts of their plumage and in size the sexes do not diflPer. 



Head brownish grey, very minutely freckled with black ; 

 the feathers down the middle of the head and occiput with a 

 large broad stripe of black down the centre ; lores, space 

 surrounding the eyes and ear-coverts reddish brown ; on each 

 side of the neck a broad stripe of rich buff barred with black ; 

 a narrow line of white passes below the angle of the mouth ; 

 chin brown ; across the throat a baud of white bounded below 

 by black, the extremities of the white feathers being of that 

 hue ; ceutre of the back dark brown, freckled with black and 

 buff ; shoulders blackish brown ; wing-coverts freckled grey, 

 buff, and black, each with a large spot of buff at the tip ; 

 primaries and secondaries blackish brown, the former crossed 

 at their base, and the latter throughout their entire length, 

 with reddish buff; the second and third primaries crossed 

 near their base with a broad band of white, stained with buff 

 on the outer margin ; the first primary with a spot of white 

 only on the margin of the inner web ; the first three primaries 

 freckled at their tips, and the remainder for the entire length 

 of their inner webs, with brownish grey ; scapularies freckled 

 grey and brown, with a large patch of deep dull black on their 

 outer webs, margined externally with buff; rump freckled 

 with dark brown and grey, and with an interrupted line of 

 darker brown down the centre of each feather ; two centre 

 tail-feathers minutely and coarsely freckled with very dark 

 brown ; the next on each side very dark brown, crossed by 

 irregular bands of freckled brownish grey and black ; the next 

 on each side similar, but the bands narrower and less con- 

 spicuous ; the two outer ones on each side very dark brown for 



