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CHUCK- WILLIS-WIDOW. 



scapulars broadly spotted with deep blacky bordered with creani^ 

 and interspersed with whitish; the plumage of that part of the 

 neck which falls over the back is long, something like that of a 

 cock, and streaked with yellowish brown; wing quills barred with 

 black and bright rust; tail rounded, extending about an inch be- 

 yond the tips of the wings; it consists of ten feathers, the four 

 middle ones are powdered with various tints of ferruginous, and 

 elegantly marked with fine zig-zag lines and large herring-bone 

 figures of black; exterior edges of the three outer feathers barred 

 like the wings; their interior vanes for two-thirds of their length 

 are pure snowy white, marbled with black and ferruginous at the 

 base; this white spreads over the greater part of the three outer 

 feathers near their tips; across the throat is a slight band or mark 

 of whitish ; breast black, powdered with rust ; belly and vent lighter; 

 legs feathered before nearly to the feet, which are of a dirty pur- 

 plish flesh color; inner side of the middle claw deeply pectinated. 



The female difFers chiefly in wanting the pure white on the 

 three exterior tail feathers, these being more of a brownish cast. 



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