BRITISH BIRDS. 115 



greater coverts and secondaries are deep brown, 

 black in the middle, with pale edges, and tips 

 white; the primaries are much the same, but of a 

 darker cast ; the under parts are sullied white, 

 delicately barred on the breast and sides with dark 

 brown ; the thighs mottled the same ; the legs dark 

 lead blue. The gizzard was full of the remains of 

 insects, such as the legs of eanvigs and beetles. 



