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variety of this species, of which the latter says that the whole 
head, neck, and breast, are black, the feathers bordered with 
+eddish tee: the band above the thighs white, crossed with 
black lines; the thighs and feathered tarsi a crossed with 
many narrow black bars , the black occupying rather the greater 
portion: in these specimens the tail is white, banded near the 
tip with a broad black bar, above which are four or five 
narrower bars of the same colour. In some of them the throat 
and sides of the body are quite black, very narrowly streaked 
with yellowish white: these are considered to be the oldest 
birds. In autumn, after moulting, all are darker than in the 
summer, the plumage having become faded. 
Montagu describes another variety killed in Suffolk, having 
the tail of a cream-coloured white, a brown bar, above an inch 
in length, near the tip; above that another, half an inch 
broad, and above these, each feather as having a spot upon 
it in the middle, resembling, when spread, a third bar; the 
two outer feathers on each side marked with a few irregular 
spots of brown on the outer webs, almost the whole of their 
length. - It was probably a male, as it measured only one 
foot ten inches in length. 
Pennant has mentioned another, shot near London, which 
had the extreme half of the tail brown, tipped with dull 
white; but I see scarcely any variety in this from the ordinary 
marking of the bird, unless it be that there were no bars in 
the lower—the brown half of the tail. 
