152 BRITISH BIRDS. 
greyish white, with arrow-headed spots of dark brown on the breast and 
sides of the neck, and with streaks of the same colour on the flanks. The 
bill has the upper mandible dark brown, except the edges, which, together 
‘with the lower mandible, are ochre-yellow ; legs, feet, and claws pale 
brown; irides hazel. The female resembles the male in colour. After 
the autumn moult the general colour of the plumage is a richer and darker 
brown, more suffused with buff. Young in first plumage have the spots 
deeper in colour, larger and more profuse on the underparts, and the 
general colour is still more suffused with rich buff than in that of the 
adults. 
