BRITISH BIRDS, 
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The primary quills are brown^ with duiky tips | the 
fecondaries lead colour, tinged with brown, and 
nightly tipped with dull white. The tail confifts of 
twelve fliort feathers, of a dark brownifh afh, which 
have alfo a hoary grey appearance : the legs and 
toes are lead colour, fliaded and dafhed with black. 
This fpecies is without the beauty-fpot on the 
wings, and has altogether a more plain and half- 
mourning kind of look than others of this tribe. 
The fpecimen from which the above figure was 
drawn was fhot at Axwell-Park, in the county of 
Durham : the defcription was taken from one Ihot 
in January near Holy Ifland. The former differed 
from the latter in wanting the black on the rump 
and vent, and in fome other flight variations in the 
fhadings of its colours. 
‘‘ The head of the female is of a pale reddifh 
brown : the breaft is of rather a deeper colour : the 
coverts of the wings plain afh-colour: the back 
marked like that of the male: the belly afli-co- 
loured.” * 
Thefe birds leave the north on the approach of 
winter, and migrate fouthward as far, it is faid, as 
Egypt in Africa, and Carolina and Louifiana, in 
America. They arrive in the marfhes of France 
about the end of October, in tolerably numerous 
flocks 5 and confiderable numbers of them arc 
* Pennant. 
