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the straw-coloured shafts; greater and lesser wing coverts, crossed 
with yellowish white bars; legs and toes, greyish yellow. 
The young of the year resemble the female; the males do 
not acquire the black patch till the second year. 
Varieties have occurred of a white and of a yellowish white 
colour, some spotted with white, and others dusky all over. 
