92 FRANK forester's FIELD SPORTS. 



of the head very short. Wings of moderate length, narrow, 

 sharp ; primaries broad, tapering, but rounded, the first ex- 

 tremely small and pointed, the second longest, the third very 

 little shorter, the rest rapidly graduated ; secondaries broad, 

 short, incurved, rounded, the inner very long, tapering, as are 

 the scapulars. Tail short, rounded, of sixteen rounded feathers. 



" Bill brown, the granulated part toward the tip black. 

 Iris hazel. Feet bluish gray, claws dusky. On the upper 

 part of the head two brownish-black longitudinal bands, sepa- 

 rated by a narrower central pale brown one, and with another 

 pale brown band on each side from the bill over the eye. Then 

 a loral band of dark brown ; chin whitish ; neck pale reddish- 

 brown, spotted with brownish-black. The general color of 

 upper parts is brownish-black, variegated with pale reddish- 

 brown, of which latter color are the outer edges of the scapu- 

 lars and of the lateral feathers on the anterior part of the back. 

 Wing-coverts, and inner secondaries, similarly mottled ; the 

 small anterior coverts, the primary coverts, primary quills, and 

 outer secondaries, deep brown more or less tipped with white ; 

 rump barred with yellowish-gray and dusky ; upper tail coverts 

 similar, but the larger barred with brownish-red and black. 

 Tail feathers brownish-black at the base, with a broad sub- 

 terminal band of brownish-red on the outer web of the two 

 middle, and on both webs of the rest, excepting the outer on 

 each side, which is barred with brownish-black and white, the 

 black bars five ; the tips of all white. Anterior part of breast 

 like the neck, the rest Avhite ; abdomen and lower tail coverts 

 grayish-yellow, barred with brownish-black ; lower wing co- 

 verts similarly mottled. 



" Length to end of tail, 10^ inches ; to end of claws, 11' ; 

 extent of wings, 17 ; wing, from flexure, 5 ; tail, 21 ; bill along 

 the back, 2^^ ; along the edge of the lower mandible, 2y% ; tar- 

 sus, 1x2 5 middle toe, ll ; its claw, o\ ; weight 3oz. 



" Adult female. 



" The female resembles the male, but is rather larger." 



Aaduhon'^s Birds of America. 



