FIELDFARE. 275 



The tip of the bill is black, the base of the upper mandible 

 dark brown, and that of the lower, pale yellow-brown, but in 

 spring the whole becomes orange ; the lores black : the irides 

 hazel-brown : the upper part of the head ash-grey, spotted 

 with dark brown, and a white line extends on each side 

 from the nostril backward over the eye ; the neck, ear-coverts, 

 upper part of the back, rump and upper tail-coverts, ash- 

 grey ; the back, wings and wing-coverts, rich hazel-brown ; 

 greater wing-coverts edged with grey ; primaries dark slate- 

 grey, the outer edges and tips lighter, the shafts black ; the 

 slightly-forked tail nearly black above : chin and throat 

 golden-amber, streaked with black; the breast reddish -brown, 

 spotted with black ; the belly, flanks and lower tail-coverts 

 white the two last spotted with greyish-brown and dark 

 brown ; lower wing-coverts white ; quills dark slate-grey 

 beneath : legs and toes very dark brown ; claws black. 



The whole length is fully ten inches: the wing "from the 

 carpal joint, five inches and five eighths ; the second quill a 

 little longer than the fifth ; the third and fourth equal in 

 length, and the longest in the wing. 



The female has the bill darker ; the head and back less 

 pure in colour, and the legs paler. 



The young has some resemblance to the adult, but wants 

 the grey head and nape those parts being of a dark brown, 

 and the superciliary streak is buff ; the mantle is of a deep 

 wood-brown, the feathers bearing a median streak of ochre ; 

 and the flanks are tinged with orange. 



