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FAMILIAR WILD BIRDS. 



a sooty colour, and from the chin to the vent underneath 

 white, the only feathers visible being a few in the wing 1 ; 

 but the other feathers grow very rapidly through the 

 down, and the young birds are soon like the adult in 

 plumage, except that the feathers on the neck, throat, and 

 sides of the head are white until after the spring moult, 

 and are only black during the breeding season. 





