74 BRITISH BIRDS. 



with brown ; the hinder part of the neck is darker, 

 and streaked with ash-coloured brown; the upper 

 parts of the plumage partake more or less of a 

 glossy bronze olive brown, and most of the feathers 

 are darkest near their margins, and edged and 

 tipped with pale rusty white; the tertials are also 

 edged and tipped with the same; the greater 

 coverts are ash brown, \vith white edges and tips; 

 the secondary quills are brown, edged with white 

 on their outer webs; the inner ones are mostly 

 white; the tail, which consists of twelve feathers, 

 is brownish ash, edged and tipped with dull white; 

 the belly, and upper and under coverts of the tail, 

 are more or less of a pure white ; the legs and toes 

 are slender, of a dark colour, and bare of feathers 

 about half an inch above the knees, and from these 

 an inch and a quarter long to the tread of the foot. 

 The stuffed specimen from which the foregoing 

 figure and description were taken, was presented 

 to the author, by Mr. Bullock, in the latter end of 

 January, 1814; it was shot near Sunderland, among 

 many other birds which had been driven from their 

 northern haunts by the extremity of the weather, 

 during the very stormy winter of that year. 



Our figure represents the young bird in its first 

 plumage. 



