three rare Species of Britifo Birds. 43 
brown; the back and fcapulars of the fame colour, obfcurely 
marked with dufky ftrokes; above the eye, and beneath the ear, is 
a lightifh-coloured ftroke; the throat whitifh; the breaft and belly 
yellowifh white, the former blotched with large dufky fpots; the 
fides marked with ftrokes of the fame; under tail-coverts light 
brown; the two middle feathers of the tail dark brown, the others 
duiky,—the outer one of a dirty yellowifh white on the interior web 
-and the point of the exterior,—in the fecond feather the light colour 
is juft vifible at the end; the quill feathers and wing-coverts are 
_dufky, flightly edged with light brown; legs and toes dufky; claws 
black; hind claw four tenths of an inch long, and fomewhat crooked. 
The female refembles the male. 
The young birds are not maturely feathered till after the winter 
of their firft year; till then their upper parts have a tinge of oliva- 
ceous afh-colour; beneath, the lighter parts are yellowifh, and the 
coverts of the wings more deeply margined with light brown: the 
bafe of the under mandible and legs lefs dufky. 
‘I have lately obferved this bird on the coaft of Kent and Suffex. 
Mr. Lewin having publifhed a figure of this bird already, its egg 
a is here aaa yt Tab. 2. fig. 3. 
G2 A IV. Account 
