BRITISH BIRDS* 
151. 
of the wing dulky. There is a pale fpot before 
each eye : the cheeks and throat are white : the fore 
part of the neck is light brown ; and the breaft and 
belly are white and glofly like fatin : the thighs and 
vent are covered with dirty white downy feathers : 
the legs are white behind^ dufky on the outer fideSj 
and pale blue on the inner fides and fliins : the toes 
and webbed membranes are alfo blue on the upper 
fideSj and dark underneath.* 
This defcription was taken from a very perfefl: 
bird caught in Sand Hutton Car, near York, on 
the 28th of January, 1799, by the Rev. C. Rud- 
flon : other fpecimens of this fpecies have differed 
in the ftiades of their plumage and colour of the 
bill : in fome the upper mandible is yellow, from 
the noftrils to the corners of the mouth, and the 
under one entirely of that colour. 
