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PLATE 21. Fig. 1. Represents a female of the natural size. 

 Bill orange-yellow at the base ; tip black. Head, neck, General 

 upper part of the breast, back, and scapulars ash-grey, tion. nP 

 tinged with hair-brown ; deepest upon the latter parts. Female. 

 Chin, the streak over the eye, the whole of the under 

 parts of the body, and the upper tail-coverts, white. 

 Wing-coverts pale hair-brown, deeply margined with 

 greyish-white. Quills brownish- black, with an angular 

 white spot at their tips ; the shafts, as well as the basal 

 parts of the outer webs of the third, fourth, fifth, and 

 following feathers pure white, and forming a bar across 

 the wings. In the tail, the middle feathers are almost 

 wholly black, the base alone being white ; and this in- 

 creases progressively to the outer feather, which is white 

 for upwards of half its length. But the tail, when not 

 expanded, appears wholly black. The tips of the tail- 

 feathers, in some specimens, are margined with greyish- 

 white. Legs very long, with the tibiae naked for up- 

 wards of an inch and three-quarters above the tarsal 

 joint ; colour blackish-grey. 



Fig. 2. Represents the summer (or nuptial) plumage of the Male. 



male bird. 



Bill a fine orange-colour at the base, with the tip black. 

 Crown of the head reddish-brown, streaked with black. 

 Forehead, eye-streak, and chin, reddish-white. Cheeks, 

 neck, and breast pale reddish-brown ; the latter trans- 

 versely barred with brownish-black. Belly, abdomen, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts, white, barred at distant 

 intervals with pale reddish-brown and blackish-brown. 

 Back and scapulars black, having each feather margined 

 and barred with reddish-brown. Smaller wing coverts, 

 near the bend of the wing, of a deep hair-brown ; the 

 greater coverts deeply margined with white. Tail 

 black, with the bases of the feathers white. Legs black- 

 ish-grey. 



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