STRANGERS OF THE AUTUMN, 



215 



SPECIES. 



POINTS OF DISTINCTION. 



Swallow-tailed Kite 



Snowy Owl 



Hawk Owl . 



Tengmalm's Owl 



White's Thrush 



Black-throated Ousel 



Black-bellied Dipper 

 Bluethroat 



General colour white and black 

 shot with blue and purple ; tail 

 acutely forked. Length 21 

 inches. 



White, more or less spotted, and 

 barred with blackish brown ; feet 

 feathered to claws; nooperculum. 

 Length 22 to 27 inches. 



Above, dark brown spotted with 

 white; below, white barred with 

 reddish brown ; tail long, barred 

 and tipped with white; feet 

 feathered to claws. Length 14 

 inches. 



Ears with an operculum ; above, 

 brown spotted with white ; below, 

 white barred with reddish brown. 

 Length 9 to 10 inches. 



Fourteen tail feathers. Abo ve,buffish 

 brown; below, white, suffused on 

 breast with buff; marked above 

 and below with dark crescentic 

 bands; axillaries black with white 

 bases. Length 12^ inches. 



Above, olive brown; throat and 

 breast black with pale margins to 

 feathers; flanks grayish brown, 

 shading into white on belly ; 

 axillaries chestnut. Female 

 without black throat and breast, 

 the feathers having dark centres 

 only. Length 9^ inches. 



Similar to Common Dipper, but 

 breast as well as belly black. 

 Length 7 inches. 



Above, brown, except pale buff eye- 



