BOSEATE TEEN. . 29 



looks very attenuated when drawn together. Upper tail coverts, 

 white; lower tail coverts white; the legs, bare of feathers 

 about half an inch above the knees, and toes, bright yellowish 

 orange red; claws, black and hooked; webs, yellowish orange 

 red, they are much scalloped. 



In the young bird of the first year, the bill is brownish 

 black, orange yellow at the base; forehead, white; crown, 

 pale yellowish grey brown; neck on the back, and nape, 

 black, barred with pale brown or whitish; chin, throat, and 

 breast, dull white; back, bluish grey, barred with blackish 

 or brownish grey, the feathers tipped with yellowish white. 

 Greater and lesser wing coverts, bluish grey, barred with 

 blackish grey, the tips of the feathers white, or yellowish 

 white, forming a bar across the wing; primaries, blue grey, 

 the outer web of the first one black, the others margined 

 with white, the tips dusky with pale edges; secondaries, 

 tipped with white, or yellow white, forming a second narrow 

 white bar across the wing; tertiaries, blue grey bordered 

 with brown, with a white edge. Tail, grey, the outer webs 

 darker than the inner, that of the outermost nearly black, 

 the tips of the feathers white; legs and toes, pale yellowish 

 red; webs, pale yellowish red. 



