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upper tail-coverts, dark brown, barred with paler 
brown. Wing-quills brown and black. Tail black 
and white, as are its upper coverts. Under surface 
of the body white, transversely marked with cine- 
reous-grey or dull brown, the centre of the belly 
being generally, however, plain white. Bill, basal 
half flesh-colour, point half black. Feet dull flesh- 
colour. Irides dark brown.” One shot by me at 
Teignmouth, on the 17th of October, is in a transi- 
tion state from this to a more mature plumage: the 
head, neck, breast and flanks are white, streaked and 
spotted with pale brown; chin white; the back and 
scapulars nearly half and half gull-grey and pale 
brown, the brown feathers (which are the remains of 
the former plumage) margined with white; the lesser 
wing-coverts pale brown, margined with white; the 
greater the same, but slightly tinged with gull-grey 
at the base, which looks as if the change of colour 
was coming in those feathers by transmutation rather 
than moult; the tertials are darkish brown, tipped 
with white. Another specimen, shot by me at Teign- 
mouth, appears to agree very closely with Mr. Blake- 
Knox’s description of the third winter plumage: the 
pill and legs were grey (till Mrs. Turle painted them 
bright red); the whole of the head and neck white, 
streaked and spotted with dusky, except the chin, 
which is plain white; the breast much spotted with 
palish brown; the back, scapulars, wing-coverts and 
tertials gull-grey, except the tips of some of the 
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