EOSEATE TEEN. 
20 
looks very attenuated when drawn together. Upper tail coverts, 
white; lower tail coverts white; the legs, bare of feathers 
about half an inch above the knees, and toes, bright yellowish 
orange red; claws, black and hooked; webs, yellowish orange 
red, they are much scalloped. 
In the young bird of the first year, the bill is brownish 
black, orange yellow at the base; forehead, white; crown, 
pale yellowish grey brown; neck on the back, and nape, 
black, barred with pale brown or whitish; chin, throat, and 
breast, dull white; back, bluish grey, barred with blackish 
or brownish grey, the feathers tipped with yellowish white. 
Greater and lesser wing coverts, bluish grey, barred with 
blackish grey, the tips of the feathers white, or yellowish 
white, forming a bar across the wing; primaries, blue grey, 
the outer web of the first one black, the others margined 
with white, the tips dusky with pale edges; secondaries, 
tipped with white, or yellow white, forming a second narrow 
white bar across the wing; tertiaries, blue grey bordered 
with brown, with a white edge. Tail, grey, the outer webs 
darker than the inner, that of the outermost nearly black, 
the tips of the feathers white; legs and toes, pale yellowish 
red; webs, pale yellowish red. 
