94 
ALLEN’S naturalist’s LIBRARY. 
P- 46.3, Pl. 610 
ed YairHI’' li v" P' ^94 (1883); Saunders, 
P 6^^, /ilVnf 4 r ?-iF- ; id. Man. Brit. B. 
(■- ^ 7 Cat. 13. Ent. Mus. xxv. p '222 riSo6’i 
Stcrcoranus pomannus, Seebohin, Hist. Brit. B. id. p^349 (i gS). 
Adiut Male.— Ciencral colour above dark slaty-brown the 
1^ 4 tail-coverts with some white bars, mostly con- 
cealed ; wing-coveits like the back ; bastard-wing, iirunarv- 
covcits,and quills blackish-brown, browner on the inLr web 
and with a good deal of white at the base M e a t^ 
decreasing m extent on the inner primaries: tail bhS ’ 
brown; crown of head black, forniing a cap the blSk 
the hhid necr acuminate like those of 
and s des o^I 1 straw-yellow like the sides of the face 
and sides of the neck; the hind-neck slaty-brown like the 
siSoahe’Se?^?'' t'^roat straw-yellow like the 
body and danka also So? ii'’ d I'" “ 
abdomen and under tail-coverts nearly uniforn/ slaty-brown 
only slightly mott ed with white; under wing-coverts ?nd 
axi lanes uniform slaty-brown, the lower primary-coverts lighter 
reddish-brown. 
lotai length, 21 inches; cuhnen, 17; wine ia -6 ■ tail >-0. 
centre tail-feathers, 7 ’ 5 ; tarsus, 2 '4 6^ tail, 49; 
_ Adult Female.— Similar to the male. Total lencth' 20-. 
inches; wing, 14-0. lengtn, 205 
Adult in Winter. — Similnr tr, .i,,, 
ToSr.s::ct%‘‘,'’r'"' 
SiriS™ Sf '?s ^ 
undei tail-coverts. (Saunders, Cat. B. xxv. p. 326.) 
le pectoral band is wider in immature birds, the yellow 
°V,"d"“mi'' ^^‘^^ident, and the flanks are generSv 
1 4 '^•4 the under surfece of the 
body, and the upper and under tail-coverts, as well as the 
under wing coverts, are barred or mottled with black and 
