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grey on the outer webs of all the other primaries, their coverts 

 and winglets ; the first five primaries are faintly notched on the 

 inner web, and were pale or greyish white on the latter above 

 the notches, while the rest of the primaries have the inner 

 portions of the inner webs white ; this is still more conspicu- 

 ous in the secondaries, most of which have their whole outer 

 webs a silver grey (probably those which still retain the brown 

 are the remains of the less mature plumage) ; the tertials are 

 pure white (while some are pearly grey on the outer webs, and on 

 the inner greyish brown paling to grey or white towards 

 the margin) ; the feathers of the base of the neck and 

 breast are very thickly set, very narrow and pointed ; the 

 filaments along the margin a good deal separated. 



The young bird in the stage in which we usually obtain 

 them, altogether wants the linear lanceolate feathers. It has 

 the whole head, neck, and lower surface of the body, and under 

 surface of the wings (except the tips of the quills, and a row 

 of small coverts near the margin of the wing, which are pale 

 wood brown) ; the middle of the back between the shoulders, 

 the whole middle and lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 white, more or less shaded with grey about the back of the 

 neck, owing to the dark bases of the feathers shewing more 

 or less, but elsewhere very pure; the feathers of the head 

 and neck are far shorter, and more fur-like than in the adult. 

 There is scarcely any twisting and curling about the ear- 

 coverts ; and the crest is very small in volume, and not above 

 two inches in length ; the whole of the scapulars and shoulder 

 feathers are broadly tipped with pale brown, which, owing to 

 their overlapping each other, is the chief color visible; and 

 though their shafts are dark as in the adult, they have not 

 the linear lanceolate character so conspicuous in the latter ; 

 the upper tail-coverts are dark shafted as in the adult ; the 

 tail feathers are white at the base, on both webs ; the greater 

 part of the rest of the inner web white, with a little grey 

 towards the tips, and of the outer webs silvery grey ; fully the 

 basal third of the shafts white, the terminal two-thirds blackish ; 

 the tertials and their coverts nearly pure white ; only a row 

 or two of the lesser coverts along the edge of the wing pale 

 brown, and the tertials themselves, and greater coverts, with 

 a tinge of the same hue about the tips; the whole of the 

 lesser and median coverts, from the elbow to the carpal joint, 

 pale brown (some of the feathers greyer, and others more buffy), 

 darker shafted, and faintly tipped with white ; primaries and 

 secondaries with white at their bases on both webs, and with 

 a large portion of their inner webs white ; the rest a darkish 

 brown ; winglet and primary greater coverts much of the same 



