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Joseph Duff, of Bishops Auckland, mentions also in the same 
magazine, page 2386, one in which the fifth, sixth, and 
seventh quill feathers in each wing were white, the greater 
coverts white, the scapulars white, the lower part of the back 
cloudy white, the six middle tail feathers white, with a dark 
brown bar across the end, and the rest of the tail feathers 
tipped with white. A variegated one, nearly white, was shot 
at Hickling, in Norfolk, in 1848. Bewick mentions another, 
of which the head and neck were yellowish white, the rest 
of the body nearly of the same colour, mixed with a few brown 
feathers; the spots on the breast were faint and indistinct, 
the quill feathers perfectly white, except one or two on each 
side, which were brown; the tail was marked in a similar 
manner. Sir William Jardine too observes that the bird is 
sometimes found with the whole colours of a paler tint, but 
still keeping their general distribution; and varieties with the 
head, or head and neck white, or pale grey, are mentioned 
by Dr. Latham. 
