BRITISH BIRDS. 
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but of a paler and more dingy cast; the feathers on 
the back, scapulars, and greater and lesser coverts are 
of a very dark brown in the middle, but the rest of the 
webs are much lighter and of a rusty brown ; the lower 
part of the back and upper coverts of the tail are also 
of the latter colour ; the quills and tail feathers are 
deepish brown, the former edged with light brown; 
the middle tail feathers the same ; the rest plain, and 
the outer feathers are somewhat longer than the mid- 
dle ones. The legs reddish yellow. Dr Latham says, 
this bird is in 66 the collection of M. Tunstall, Esq.” 
66 That figured in Brown’s work, was caught in Mary- 
la-Bonne fields, by a bird catcher.” 
