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the British Museum, which has been already referred to 

 as having been killed in Kent, and a specimen of a young 

 female in the Museum of the Zoological Society, which 

 bird belonged to the collection of Mr. Vigors ; both these, 

 apparently in the plumage of the second or third year, 

 are very much alike, and may be thus described : Head, 

 and nape of the neck, red ; back and wings hair brown, 

 without any transverse lines ; scapulars and edges of the 

 tertials yellowish white ; rump inclining to grey ; tail- 

 feathers clove brown ; all the under surface of the body 

 dull white, tinged with red, but without bars ; beak, legs, 

 and toes, dark brown. Of this last pair of birds, the 

 female is the smaller. 



In the illustration at the head of this article, the lower 

 figure represents an adult male bird, the upper figure is 

 that of a young bird of the year. 



The vignette below is intended by the artist to refer 

 to "A Woodchat" of another description. 



