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BRITISH BIRDS. 



the colour is much paler. Yourig in first plumage have a slate-grey bill, 

 flesh-coloured legs, feet, aud orbits, and brown irides ; all the feathers of 

 the upper parts are brown, with pale edges, which are broadest and whitest 

 on the head and rump ; the upper tail-coverts and tail are white barred 

 with brown, the bars on the latter becoming confluent towards the tip ; the 

 quills are dark brown, and the underparts are white streaked with brown. 

 This plumage is very slightly moulted in the first autumn. Young in down 

 are greyish buff, shading into white on the belly, distinctly spotted with 

 black on the head and throat, and obscurely spotted with dark brown on 

 the rest of the upper parts. 



BLACK-HEADED GULI/S NEST. 



