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YELLOW-SHANKS. 
ash grey, slightly varied with occasional darker-coloured 
streaks. Chin and throat, white; breast on the middle and 
lower portion, white, the sides with ash grey streaks; back on 
the upper part, ash grey, the lower almost black. 
The wings have the first quill feather the longest; they 
reach about half an inch beyond the end of the tail; the 
axillary plume white; greater and lesser wing coverts, greyish 
black, the margins of the feathers varied with white. Pri¬ 
maries, black, the shaft of the first white, the others with 
shafts of light brown; secondaries, greyish black, the edges 
white. Tail, white, with numerous ash-coloured bands, broadest 
on the central feathers, which are rather longer than the 
others, with about twelve narrower bands on each outside 
one; upper tail coverts, white, those next the back with two 
semicircular bands of dark grey on a white ground; under 
tail coverts, white, those next the back with two semicircular 
bands of dark grey on a white ground; under tail coverts, 
white. Legs and toes, yellow. 
