3 22 GREATER BRAMBLING. ClafsII. 



terior fide ; the third is marked with the fame color 

 on both fides the tip : the reft of the tail feathers are 

 entirely dufky. The wings, when clofed, reach 

 about the middle of the tail : the color, of as much 

 of the fix firfl quil-feathers that appear in view, are 

 dusky, flightly tipt with areddifh white : their lower 

 part on both fides white : in the feven iucceeding 

 feathers the dusky color gradually gives place to the 

 white ; which in the feventh of thefe poflefies the 

 whole feather, except a fmall fpot on the exterior 

 upper fide of each ; the two next are wholly white : 

 the reft of the quil-feathers and the fcapular feathers 

 are black, edged with a pale red : the baftard wing, 

 and the outmoft fecondary feathers are of the fame 

 color with the quil-feathers : the reft of them, toge- 

 ther with the coverts, are entirely white, forming one 

 large bed of white. The legs, feet and claws are 

 black : the hind toe is very long, like that of a lark, 

 but not fo ftrait. 



Sometimes in this, but always in the arftic coun- 

 tries, the whole bird, except the back, end, of the quil- 

 feathers, and the four middle feathers of the tail, is 

 white ; thofe parts being with us partly tawny, partly 

 black. In the northern regions, generally black or 

 dufky. In England they are miftaken for white larks, as 

 they have a long back claw, like the lark kind. Thefe 

 birds inhabite all the northern partsof theworld, even 

 as far as the rigorous climate of Greenland and Spitz- 

 lergen ; where very few land fowl are found. In 

 fevere winters, they are forced by the cold into this 

 country ; but we do not find that they breed here : 



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