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feathers there is a dark, almost black, streak just 
inside the white margins; the rump and tail-coverts 
distinctly barred with ash-grey and white; the 
primary quills and some of their greater coverts are 
dusky, the shafts white; the secondaries and some 
of the greater coverts and tertials ash-grey, regularly 
marked on the margins with ash-grey and dusky; 
the tail is ash-grey, the outside feathers slightly 
barred with dusky ; the chin white; the throat and 
breast are white, slightly clouded with pale ash-grey ; 
all the rest of the under parts are white. The bird 
here described is very nearly in the winter plumage 
of the adult as described by Yarrell, the only differ- 
ence being that Yarrell does not notice the dark 
marks inside the light margins on the lesser wing- 
coverts, and describes the front of the neck only as 
tinged with ash-colour, and the breast as white, like 
the rest of the under parts: at this time of the year 
the beak of the adult bird is black, except at the 
base, where it is bright red; the irides dark brown; 
legs and toes vermilion-red;. claws black. The 
summer plumage is very different: the beak is 
nearly black, but the base of the lower mandible is 
dark red; the irides dark brown; over the eye the 
eyelid is white; the whole of the head and neck all 
round sooty black; back, scapulars, all the wing- 
coverts, secondaries and tertials sooty black, with 
well-defined triangular spots of pure white along the 
margin of the web of each feather, which is also 
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