208 GREENSHAN'K. 



having the plumage intermixed with a hair-brown 

 tint, giving these parts a patched or irregularly 

 marked appearance, in which the masses of black 

 were conspicuous ; the long tertial feathers were 

 hair-brown, paler and with a grey tint on the 

 edges, having the shafts, and a series of diagonal 

 bars, which lose themselves before reaching the 

 centre, dark clove-brown ; the shoulders and quills 

 are greyish-black, the inner webs of the latter 

 shading to a paler tint, and the shaft of the first 

 only being white ; the centre of the back, the 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts, pure white ; tail of 

 the same colour, except the centre feathers, which 

 are tinted with a brownish-grey ; the whole irre- 

 gularly, and in a broken manner, barred with 

 clove-brown ; all the under parts are pure white ; 

 the sides of the neck streaked along the centre of 

 each feather with greyish-black ; the feathers on 

 the middle of the neck, and on the breast, being 

 marked with an oval spot of the same colour, 

 which marking extends irregularly downwards on 

 the sides and flanks, taking on the latter the form 

 of bars, and leaving the centre of the belly and 

 vent very pure ; the axillary feathers are narrowly 

 waved across with hair -brown. In a specimen 

 shot upon the Annan, in winter, there is a much 

 greater mixture of white on the crown and back 

 of the neck, and the dark markings are not so 

 deep, the whole appearance being of a greyish 

 tint ; on the back, tertial s, and wings, the colour 

 is a greyish hair-brown, each feather edged with 



