BRITISH BIRDS. 
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coverts white, elegantly barred and spotted with white ; 
tail nearly even at the end, the two middle feathers 
rather the longest, the whole marked with eight or 
nine alternate bars of black and white quite to the 
base, forming, when the tail is spread, so many con- 
centric semicircular bands ; legs dusky black, two and 
a half inches long from the knee to the heel; bare 
space above the knee, scarcely three-quarters of an 
inch ; toes marginated, outer one connected as far as 
the first joint to the middle one. This bird was shot 
at Knightsbridge, 1803, and proved to be a female.’® 
There is scarcely any difference between the male and 
the female. 
