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on the upper tail-coverts; the underparts are uniform buffish white, 
darkest on the breast; the lores are very dark brown ; the white on the 
two outside tail-feathers is suffused with sandy brown; bill with the 
upper mandible dark brown, paler at the tip, and the lower mandible 
pale brown; legs, feet, and claws light brown; irides dark brown. ‘The 
female very closely resembles the male in colour. After the autumn 
moult both the upper and under parts are somewhat more rufous. Birds 
of the year are more or less streaked on the breast and the sides of the 
throat, a character which is still more pronounced in young in first 
plumage. The hind claw is somewhat more developed than that of the 
Meadow-Pipit, but not so much so as that of Richard’s Pipit. 
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