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the eyqs is greenish ; plumage most beautiful snowy 

 white, with plumes on the head, breast, and shoulders ; 

 the legs are black. 



The female lays 4 or 5 white eggs. 



12. GARDENL 



A. nigricans albo maculata subtus albida fusco stri- 

 ata, remigibus margine apiceque albis, cauda 

 fusca. Lath. 



The bill is dusky, beneath greenish yellow; the 

 lore is greenish ; the plumage is dusky above, spotted 

 and striated with white, except the lower part of the 

 back, which is plain ; the head, neck, breast and 

 belly are whitish, streaked longitudinally with fine 

 short lines of black and dusky ; lesser coverts are 

 marked with yellowish spots; the greater coverts, 

 with a white spot at the tip of each feather, forming 

 rows across the wings ; the greater quills are edged 

 with dull white, the tips the same ; the tail is dusky ; 

 the legs are of a dirty yellow. 



Killed by Lord Kirkwall near Thame in Oxfordshire. 



