374 BRITISH BIRDS. 



eyes, a black patch or stripe commences, and is 

 nearly covered by a dull white streak, which passes 

 above the eyes, and both together continue to, and 

 fall over, the nape. The hinder part of the head is 

 of a bluish ash. All the foreparts of the wing, be- 

 low the wrist, including the bastard wing, as well 

 as the primaries and secondaries, are brownish 

 black, more or less edged and tipped with dull 

 white. The rest of the plumage is of a cinnamon 

 colour, palest on the breast and belly. The rump 

 is barred with brown zig-zag lines; at the elbow 

 joint of the wings, the feathers are also marked in 

 a somewhat similar way. Buffon seems to have 

 been the first who described this bird, from a single 

 specimen taken in France; and Latham, in his 

 copious and excellent work on Ornithology, de- 

 scribes and figures it from one which was shot near 

 St. Alban's, in East Kent, by Wm. Hammond, 

 Esq. 



The stuffed specimen, from which the foregoing 

 figure was made, was obligingly lent to this work 

 by the late Rev. T. Gisborne, A.M., Prebendary of 

 Durham, and was reported to him as having been 

 shot in Charnwood Forest, Lincolnshire, on the 

 1 5th of October, 1827. 



