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the bill in the European specimen is not so large as in the 

 Asiatic ones. I cannot therefore speak with any degree of 

 certainty as to the specific identity or dissimilarity of these 

 different individuals, but all that I can suggest is that they 

 may belong to two or more different, but closely allied 

 species; the outward appearance of each one is very much, I 

 believe, that of the others. 



The following is the description from Yarrell of the British 

 specimen, which, as having been procured in Hampshire, was 

 named after the Eev. Gilbert White, of Selborne, by T. C. 

 Eyton, Esq., of Eyton, Shropshire: Length, one foot and 

 half an inch; bill, dark brown, except the base of the under 

 mandible, which is pale yellow brown: the space between the 

 bill and the eye is pale brown, and from the lower edge of 

 the under mandible descends a narrow dark streak. Iris, 

 hazel; head on the back, yellow brown, the feathers tipped 

 with black; neck in the front, white, the feathers tipped 

 with crescent-shaped black spots; nape, yellow brown, the 

 feathers tipped with black. Chin and throat, white; breast, 

 white, with a tinge of yellowish brown, all the feathers tipped 

 with a black crescent; back, yellow brown, darker than on 

 the head, the feathers tipped in the form of a crescent with 

 black, the shaft of each feather yellow. 



The wings are rather short, and do not reach far over the 

 tail; greater wing coverts, dark brown with light yellow brown 

 ends, forming together two oblique cross bars; lesser wing 

 coverts, also brown, with broad pale yellow ends, the side 

 webs black, the shafts yellow brown. Primaries, pale brown 

 on the outer web, brownish black on the inner web with 

 dark brown ends, the shafts black; the first quill feather is 

 very short, the second a little longer than the fifth, the third 

 and fourth equal and the longest in the wing; secondaries 

 and tertiaries, pale brown on the outer web, brownish black 

 on the inner web, with dark brown ends, the shafts black; 

 lesser under wing coverts, white at the base, and black at 

 the tip. The tail has the four middle feathers uniform pale 

 brown, the others darker in the webs, but lighter at the ends, 

 and of these the outer ones are the lightest; underneath, it 

 is greyish brown, the shafts of the feathers white; upper tail 

 coverts, yellow brown, darker than on the head, the feathers 

 tipped in the form of a crescent with black, the shaft of 

 each feather yellow; under tail coverts, white. Legs and toes, 

 pale brown; the claws rather lighter. 



