BRITISH BIRDS. 1 8 / 
LESSER IMBER. 
“ Bill black and horn-colour, tinged with blue, 
three inches long, pointed and flender : noftrils very 
near the bafe : tongue pointed : crown of the head, 
and back of the neck, moufe colour : irides brown : 
fcapulars, back, rump, tail, and wings, black, edged 
with grey : quill feathers black : tail very fhort and 
rounded. The whole under fide of the body, from 
the throat to the tail, filvery white, except a brown 
bar which erodes the vent : inner coverts of the 
wings white : legs remarkably flat, and placed clofe 
A 2 
