BRITISH BIRDS. 95 



two brown ones are extended to the nostrils: the 

 ground colour of the shoulders, scapulars, lesser 

 coverts, and tail, a glossy olive brown, the 

 feathers on all these parts are indented on the 

 edges, more or less, with triangular-shaped white 

 spots. Back white : rump barred with waved 

 lines of ash brown, and dingy white : vent feathers 

 marked nearly in the same manner, but with a 

 greater portion of white : tail and coverts also 

 barred Avith narrow waved lines, of a dull ash, 

 and in some specimens nearly black and white. 

 Five of the primary quills dark brown, tinged 

 with olive; shaft of the first quill white; the next 

 six, in the male, rather deeply tipped with white, 

 and slightly spotted and barred with brown : 

 secondaries, as far as they are uncovered, when 

 the wings are extended, of the same snowy white- 

 ness as the back. The feathers which cover the 

 upper part of the thighs, and those near them, 

 are blushed with a reddish or vinous colour: legs 

 deep orange red, and measure from the end of 

 the middle toe tail to the upper bare part of the 

 thigh, five inches and a half. 



A stuffed specimen of this elegant-looking bird, 

 from which the figure and description were taken, 

 was the gift of Mr. Riddiough, of Ormskirk ; 

 another of these birds, in perfect plumage, was 

 shot by the late Mr. John Bell, of Alemouth, 

 merchant, in September, 1801 ; it differed from 

 the former in being more sparingly spotted with 

 white on the upper parts, and in its breast, belly, 

 and the inside of the wings, being of a snowy 

 whiteness, and its sides, under the wings, more 

 'delicately spotted with pale brown. 



