68 WRYNECK;. 



white, most elegantly mottled, speckled, striated, and barred 

 with brown, the bars of an arrow-shape, and most on the 

 crown; neck, in front, pale yellow brown, with narrow trans- 

 verse black lines; nape, the same a streak of black mixed 

 with brown runs down from it to the lower part of the 

 back ; chin and throat, yellowish white and brown, with 

 transverse black bars; breast, white, with numerous arrow- 

 shaped black spots, on its sides it has a patch of brown; 

 back, as the head. 



The wings have the first and third feathers nearly equal in 

 length, longer than the fourth, and a little shorter than the 

 second, which is the longest; greater and lesser wing coverts, 

 as the head; primaries, barred alternately with pale yellow, 

 brown, and black; secondaries, brown, speckled with yellow 

 brown, and a few white spots; tertiaries, the same, with a 

 line of black. Tail, long, and much rounded at the end; the 

 colour is grey, mottled with brown, and with four irregular 

 black bars, underneath it is pale greyish brown, barred and 

 speckled with black; tipper tail coverts, grey, speckled with 

 brown; under tail coverts, dull white, tinged with pale yellow 

 brown; legs, toes, two before and two behind, and claws, 

 brown. 



The female resembles the male, but the colours of her 

 plumage are not so bright, and the band on the back not 

 so long as in the male. 



The young are also lighter in colour. 



