602 BRITISH BIRDS. 
slate-grey, shading into greyish white on the scapulars, the rump, and 
upper tail-coverts ; the lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts are black ; the wings 
are black, with white bases to both the primaries and secondaries, forming 
a double bar, and with white tips, broadest on the secondaries ; the wing- 
coverts are black, those on the shoulder broadly margined with slate-grey ; 
the two centre tail-feathers are black with white bases; the next pair are 
black, narrowly tipped with white; on the succeeding pairs the white 
increases in extent until the outermost feathers are almost uniform white. 
The underparts are white. Bill black, paler at the base of the lower 
mandible ; legs, feet, and claws brownish black ; irides dark brown. The 
female is similar to the male in colour; but the underparts are not so 
pure and are barred with faint greyish brown. Young birds are much 
duller than their parents, and the bars on the underparts are more con- 
spicuous. 
SPOTTED FLYCATCHER’S NEST, 
