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edges and tips of pale buff, with an oblique longitudinal 

 stripe of pale buff on the inner web of the last tertial feather; 

 when the wings are expanded, the white transverse bars on the 

 jet black ground are very regular and very conspicuous ; the 

 chin, throat, breast, and belly, are pale buff; under tail- 

 coverts white : legs and toes brown ; the claws black, and 

 but slightly curved. 



The whole length twelve inches and a half. From the 

 carpal joint to the end of the wing, five inches and five- 

 eighths ; the first wing-feather half the length of the second ; 

 the second rather longer than the eighth, and one quarter of 

 an inch shorter than the seventh ; the third and sixth feathers 

 equal in length, but a little shorter than the fourth and fifth, 

 which are also equal, and the longest in the wing. 



The plumage of the female is rather paler in colour than 

 that of the male, and the buff has much less of the rufous 

 tinge ; the white parts of the tertials are without any of the 

 buff colour observable in the males. 



In young birds the feathers on the breast and flanks are 

 crossed with narrow dusky lines. 



The vignette is a view of Fulham church, with part of 

 the Bishop's Walk, taken from Putney Terrace. 



