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BRITISH BIRDS. 



slate-grey, shading into greyish white on the scapulars, the rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts ; the lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts are black ; the wings 

 are black, with white bases to both the primaries and secondaries, forming 

 a double bar, and with white tips, broadest on the secondaries ; the wing- 

 coverts are black, those on the shoulder broadly margined with slate-grey ; 

 the two centre tail-feathers are black with white bases ; the next pair are 

 black, narrowly tipped with white ; on the succeeding pairs the white 

 increases in extent until the outermost feathers are almost uniform white. 

 The underparts are white. Bill black, paler at the base of the lower 

 mandible ; legs, feet, and claws brownish black ; irides dark brown. The 

 female is similar to the male in colour ; but the underparts are not so 

 pure and are barred with faint greyish brown. Young birds are much 

 duller than their parents, and the bars on the underparts are more con- 

 spicuous. 



SPOTTED FLYCATCHER S NEST. 



