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the hinder part grey;. above the eye, and passing from 

 thence over the ear-coverts to the nape of the neck, is a 

 white streak ; below this, from the eye, a black streak, 

 both meeting behind : the neck, back, and all the upper 

 surface of the body and wings, pale wood-brown, tinged 

 with reddish buff; wing -primaries black ; the tail-feathers 

 have an angular black spot near the end, increasing in size 

 toward the feather on each outside, in which the spot is 

 the largest. The chin white ; the front of the neck, the 

 breast, and under surface of the body, buffy white, palest 

 on the vent and under tail-coverts ; legs and toes cream 

 colour ; the claws brown. 



The whole length is ten inches and one quarter. From 

 the carpal joint to the end of the wing, six inches: the 

 form of the wing pointed, the first and second quill- 

 feathers being nearly of equal length, and the longest in 

 the wing; length of tarsus two inches. 



The sexes in plumage resemble each other ; but, as 

 usual in such cases, the young birds of the year differ. 

 These have the feathers clouded with two shades of pale 

 brown, with dark, irregular transverse lines of dusky ash- 

 colour, as shown in the representation ; the lines round the 

 back of the head as yet not very conspicuous ; the dark 

 feathers of the wing edged on the inner web with buff 

 colour. 



