506 
GREY SQUATAROLLE. 
abdomen, of a pure white : fore-part of the neck 
and sides of the breast white, varied with dusky 
and brown spots : the upper parts of the body 
dusky brown, varied with yellowish green spots, 
and the whole of the feathers tipped with dusky 
and whitish : the under tail-coverts mottled with 
small diagonal brown bands : the tail white ; red- 
dish towards the tip ; striped with brown bars, 
which are paler and fewer in number on the outer 
feathers : beak black : irides dusky : feet dusky 
grey. The young somewhat resemble the old ; 
they have the forehead, the eyebrows, the sides of 
the breast and those of the body spotted, but 
paler than in them : the colour of the upper parts 
of the plumage is of a white grey, varied with 
dusky; the quills being slightly edged with whitish : 
the transverse bars on the tail are grey. 
The summer plumage is as follows : the space 
between the eye and the beak, the throat, the sides 
and fore-part of the neck, the middle of the breast, 
the belly, and the sides of the body, are deep 
black ; the forehead, a broad band above the eyes, 
the lateral parts of the neck, the sides of the 
breast, the thighs, and the abdomen, are pure 
white : the nape is varied with brown, black, and 
white : the occiput, the back, the scapulars, and 
wing-coverts, are of a deep black, the whole of 
the feathers being tipped with a large spot of pure 
white : on the greater wing-coverts and the sca- 
pulars are several large white spots : the under 
tail-coverts are marked with oblique black bands : 
the middle tail-feathers are striped with white and 
black. 
