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Joseph Duff, of Bishops Auckland, mentions also in the same 

 magazine, page 2386, one in which the fifth, sixth, and 

 seventh quill feathers in each wing were white, the greater 

 coverts white, the scapulars white, the lower part of the back 

 cloudy white, the six middle tail feathers white, with a dark 

 brown bar across the end, and the rest of the tail feathers 

 tipped with white. A variegated one, nearly white, was shot 

 at Hickling, in Norfolk, in 1848. Bewick mentions another, 

 of which the head and neck were yellowish white, the rest 

 of the body nearly of the same colour, mixed with a few brown 

 feathers; the spots on the breast were faint and indistinct, 

 the quill feathers perfectly white, except one or two on each 

 side, which were brown; the tail was marked in a similar 

 manner. Sir William Jardine too observes that the bird is 

 sometimes found with the whole colours of a paler tint, but 

 still keeping their general distribution; and varieties with the 

 head, or head and neck white, or pale grey, are mentioned 

 by Dr. Latham. 



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