102 BRITISH BIRDS. 



being" confounded with any of these; but as it is 

 not very remarkable for the length of its legs, those 

 of others of the same genus being" about as long, 

 we have thought it best to retain his former name. 



The upper mandible appears dusky, the under 

 one reddish, a dark streak passes from the bill to 

 the eyes, and a whitish one over them ; the upper 

 part of the head to the nape is bronze brown, 

 narrowly streaked with ferruginous ; cheeks mottled 

 with dingy white and dull brown: the throat and 

 breast the same, but becoming more dappled on 

 the sides of the breast, the fore part of which and 

 the throat are mostly dull white and pale brown; 

 the rest of the neck is streaked with the same 

 dingy colours; the upper plumage (like the head) 

 is bronzed brown, spotted with reddish dull or 

 rusty white, and the scapulars and tertials are 

 indented more or less with deeper shades of the 

 same colour: the legs seemed to have been green. 

 The specimen from which the above figure was 

 engraven, was obligingly lent to this work by N. 

 A. Vigors, Esq. 



