8 LITTLE BUSTAED. 



The wings, which do not reach to the end of the tail, have 

 the first quill feather about an inch shorter than the second, 

 which is as long as the third, and both longer than the fourth, 

 and the longest in the wing. Greater and lesser wing coverts, 

 white; primaries, white at the base, the remainder greyish black; 

 secondaries, patched with black and white; tertiaries, pale 

 chesnut brown, streaked irregularly with numerous narrow lines 

 of black. The tail is of eighteen feathers, white at the base, 

 and barred with two narrow black bars, the ends mottled with 

 black and buff white, the tips white; upper tail coverts, pale 

 chesnut, streaked irregularly with numerous narrow lines of 

 black. Legs, toes, and claws, brown. 



Female; head, crown, and neck, pale chesnut, mottled and 

 streaked with black; chin, white; breast, marked with short 

 bars of black; greater and lesser wing coverts, partly white. 



