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FRANK FORESTER’S FIELD SPORTS. 
of the head very short. Wings of moderate length, narrow, 
sharp; primaries broad, tapering, but rounded, the first ex¬ 
tremely small and pointed, the second longest, the third very 
little shorter, the rest rapidly graduated; secondaries broad, 
short, incurved, rounded, the inner very long, tapering, as are 
the scapulars. Tail short, rounded, of sixteen rounded feathers. 
“Bill brown, the granulated part toward the tip black. 
Iris hazel. Feet bluish gray, claws dusky. On the upper 
part of the head two brownish-black longitudinal bands, sepa¬ 
rated by. a narrower central pale brown one, and with another 
pale brown band on each side from the bill over the eye. Then 
a loral band of dark brown; chin whitish; neck pale reddish- 
brown, spotted with brownish-black. The general color of 
upper parts is brownish-black, variegated with pale reddish- 
brown, of which latter color are the outer edges of the scapu¬ 
lars and of the lateral feathers on the anterior part of the back. 
Wing-coverts, and inner secondaries, similarly mottled; the 
small anterior coverts, the primary coverts, primary quills, and 
outer secondaries, deep brown more or less tipped with white; 
rump barred with yellowish-gray and dusky ; upper tail coverts 
similar, but the larger barred with brownish-red and black. 
Tail feathers brownish-black at the base, with a broad sub¬ 
terminal band of brownish-red on the outer web of the two 
middle, and on both webs of the rest, excepting the outer on 
each side, which is barred with brownish-black and white, the 
black bars five; the tips of all white. Anterior part of breast 
like the neck, the rest white ; abdomen and lower tail coverts 
grayish-yellow, barred with brownish-black ; lower wing co¬ 
verts similarly mottled. 
“ Length to end of tail, 10£ inches ; to end of claws, 11* • 
extent of wings, 17 ; wing, from flexure, 5 ; tail, 2\ ; bill along 
the back, 2 T \ ; along the edge of the lower mandible, 2& ; tar¬ 
sus, 1 t 2 2 ; middle toe, 1 1 ; its claw, 3 9 r ; weight 3oz. 
“ Adult female. 
“ The female resembles the male, but is rather larger.’* - 
Audubon's Birds of America. 
