BRITISH BIRDS. 
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the breast is plain reddish buff ; the fore part and sides 
of the neck are of the same colour, but streaked with 
brown; the hinder part of the neck is darker, and 
streaked with ash-coloured brown ; the upper parts of 
the plumage partake more or less of a glossy bronze 
olive brown, and most of the feathers are darkest near 
their margins, and edged and tipped with pale rusty 
white ; the tertials are also edged and tipped with the 
same ; the greater coverts are ash-brown, with white 
edges and tips ; the secondary quills are brown, edged 
with white on their outer webs; the inner ones are 
mostly white ; the tail, which consists of twelve fea- 
thers, is brownish ash, edged and tipped with dull 
white ; the belly, and upper and under coverts of the 
tail are more or less of a pure white ; the legs and toes 
are slender, of a dark colour, and bare of feathers 
about half an inch above the knees, and from these an 
inch and a quarter long to the tread of the foot. Mr 
Montagu’s description is somewhat different from the 
above, but whether it may arise from age or sex, we 
cannot determine. The stuffed specimen from which 
the foregoing figure and description were taken, was 
presented to the author by Mr Bullock, in the latter 
end of January, 1814< ; it was shot near Sunderland, 
among many other birds, which had been driven from 
their northern haunts by the extremity of the weather, 
during the very stormy winter of that year. 
