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BRITISH BIRDS. 



greyish white, with arrow-headed spots of dark brown on the breast and 

 sides of the neck, and with streaks of the same colour on the flanks. The 

 bill has the upper mandible dark brown, except the edges, which, together 

 with the lower mandible, are ochre-yellow ; legs, feet, and claws pale 

 brown; irides hazel. The female resembles the male in colour. After 

 the autumn moult the general colour of the plumage is a richer and darker 

 brown, more suffused with bufl'. Young in first plumage have the spots 

 deeper in colour, larger and more profuse on the underparts, and the 

 general colour is still more suffused with rich buff than in that of the 

 adults. 



