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leather with a dark stripe; legs and toes, pale brown; claws, 

 black.' 



Mr. George B. Clarke, of Woburn, Bedfordshire, has written 

 me word that in the winter of the year 1845, a person of 

 that town caught a male bird of this species nearly white. 

 He kept it in confinement for nearly four years, during which 

 period it became as white as snow. It was perfectly healthy, 

 and was a good songster. 



