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with brown, the bars more extended on the secondaries. The 
tail is marked with ten or twelve brown bars, alternating with 
others of a pale greyish-brown, the tips whitish. The cheeks 
and sides of the neck are yellowish-white, with brown lunar or 
oblong markings; the throat, fore-neck, and middle of the breast 
yellowish-white, with the shafts brown; the ground color of 
the other parts the same, but each feather with an oblong, brown, 
- longitudinal mark ; the lower tail coverts barred, the feathers of 
the legs tinged with reddish, and barred or patched with brown. 
The lower wings-coverts yellowish-white, spotted and barred 
with brown ; and the white of the inner webs of the primaries 
forming a conspicuous patch. 
Length to end of tail 19-5 inches ; extent of wings, 49 ; wing 
from flexure, 16°5 ; tail, 9; bill along the ridge, 1°58, along the 
edge of lower mandible, 1°55; tarsus, 2°83 ; hind toe 0°74, its 
claw 1; second toe, 1, its claw, 1:08; third toe 1°55; its claw, 
0°83; fourth toe, 1, its claw, 0°581. 
Frmate. The female is considerably larger than the male, 
and although similar in colouring, differs in several respects. 
The colors of the bill, iris, and fect are the same as in the male. 
The upper parts are of a darker and more uniform brown, the 
bases of the feathers dull grey; and only white on the hind- 
neck ; the whitish bands on the scapulars more obscure. ‘The 
wings and tail are colored as in the male, only the last brown 
bar, on the latter, is much broader than the rest. The predomi- 
nant color of the lower parts is chocolate-brown; but the 
cheeks and throat are streaked with dull brownish-white, the 
fore-neck obscurely, the middle of the breast conspicuously, 
transversely spotted or barred with yellowish white, intermixed 
with reddish ; the inner and anterior feathers of the legs barred 
with brownish-red; the lower tail-coverts white, barred with 
brown, the lower surface of the wing as in the male, but much 
darker, the white patch, consequently, more conspicuous. 
Length to end of tail, 22 inches; extent of wing, 61; wing 
from flexure, 17; tail, 9°75; bill along the ridge, 1°58; tarsus, 
33 first toe, 1, its claw, 1°25; second toe, 0°91, its claw, 1:25; 
third toe, 1°5, its claw, 1:08; fourth toe, 1:08, its claw, 0°83. 
Another individual, shot in Aberdeenshire, in May, 1817, was 
similar to the above; the whole upper surface, rich brown; on 
the upper part of the back, the feathers laterally margined with 
light ferruginous, the scapulars and wing coverts with that 
colour and white; the primary quills nearly black, glossed with 
purple toward the end; the secondaries nearly of the general 
tint ; all with the inner webs edged with white, and barred 
with a deeper shade of brown ; on its lower surface, the wing 
