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glossed in some lights with sap-green, on the 

 margins are triangular spots of white ; the rump is 

 white ; the tail barred white and black ; the chin is 

 white ; sides and front of the neck and the breast 

 ash-grey, each feather streaked in the centre with 

 dusky, the centre of the neck and breast are much 

 lighter than the rest, all the rest of the feathers, 

 except the dark streak in the centre, being nearly 

 white ; belly white ; under tail- coverts white, with a 

 few dusky markings on the feathers ; flanks and 

 thighs the same. This is the description of a bird 

 in Mr. Haddon's collection, which was shot at Burn- 

 ham, and agrees very nearly with the description of 

 the winter plumage of the mature bird given by 

 Yarrell. The legs and toes are red; the claws 

 black. A bird in my own collection, also killed at 

 Burnham, early in the autumn, presents much more 

 the appearance of the summer plumage ; space 

 between the beak and eye darkish dusky, over this 

 and over the eye an indistinct white streak; the 

 head and nape are streaked ash-grey and dusky ; 

 the feathers of the back, scapulars and wing-coverts 

 are dark dusky, distinctly margined with pale 

 yellowish brown ; the lower part of the back and the 

 rump pure white ; the tail-coverts are white, barred 

 with dusky : the tail yellowish brown, barred with 

 dusky; the primary quills are very dark dusky, 

 nearly black, the shafts are white ; the tertials dusky 

 in the centre, margined and marked with pale 



