68 WRYNECK. 
white, most elegantly mottled, speckled, striated, and barred 
with brown, the bars of an arrow-shape, and most on the 
crown; neck, in front, pale yellow brown, with narrow trans- 
verse black lines; nape, the same—a streak of black mixed 
with brown runs down from it to the lower part of the 
back; chin and throat, yellowish white and brown, with 
transverse black bars; breast, white, with numerous arrow- 
shaped black spots, on its sides it has a patch of brown; 
back, as the head. 
The wings have the first and third feathers nearly equal in 
length, longer than the fourth, and a little shorter than the 
second, which is the longest; greater and lesser wing coverts, 
as the head; primaries, barred alternately with pale yellow, 
brown, and black; secondaries, brown, speckled with yellow 
brown, and a few white spots; tertiaries, the same, with a 
line of black. ‘Tail, long, and much rounded at the end; the 
colour is grey, mottled with brown, and with four irregular 
black bars, underneath it is pale greyish brown, barred and 
speckled with black; upper tail coverts, grey, speckled with 
brown; under tail coverts, dull white, tinged with pale yellow 
brown; legs, toes, two before and two behind, and claws, 
brown. 
The female resembles the male, but the colours of her 
plumage are not so bright, and the band on the back not 
so long as in the male. 
The young are also lighter in colour. 
