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The marks and colours vary very confiderably in different fpecimens. 
Some have only a crefcent of black on the breaft, the chin and throat 
being quite white, in others all the white parts are ftrongly tin€tured 
with yellow; in fome the chin, fore part of the neck, and breaft, are 
black; and in the Leverian Mufeum is a fine variety; white, except 
the hind parts, which are yellowifh. 
In the females, the top of the head generally inclines tobrown. The 
ufual length of this {pectes is feven inches from the bill to the extre- 
mity of the tail. 
The neft is built on the ground, is compofed of dry grafs, fine fibres, 
and mofs; lined with hair, feathers, or foft dry grafs; the eggs are five 
in number; white, {potted with brown: for the moft part they have 
only one brood in a year. 
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