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wing-coverts have broad pale yellow ends, the lateral webs 

 black, the shafts yellow brown ; the greater wing-coverts 

 dark brown with light yellow brown ends, together form- 

 ing two oblique descending bars ; the feathers of the spu- 

 rious wing are light yellow brown, tipped with black, form- 

 ing an ascending oblique bar ; the wing-feathers pale brown 

 on the outer web, brownish black on the inner web, with 

 dark brown ends, the shafts black : the four central tail- 

 feathers uniform pale brown ; the others darker in the webs, 

 but lighter at the ends, and of these the outer tail-feathers 

 are the lightest. The chin and throat is white ; from the 

 lower edge of the under mandible descends a narrow dark 

 streak ; the neck, breast, and all the under surface, white, 

 tinged on the breast and flanks with yellow brown, all the 

 feathers having a black semilunar tip ; before the wing on 

 each side, the brown colour of the back extends a little 

 forward toward the breast; anterior under wing-coverts 

 white at the base, and black at the tip ; under tail-coverts 

 white ; under surface of the tail-feathers greyish brown, 

 the shafts white ; legs and toes pale brown, the claws rather 

 lighter. 



This bird having been killed in Hampshire, was named 

 after White of Selborne by my friend T. C. Eyton, Esq. 



