coverts, white. Legs, very long and slender, and as the toes, bluish
olive green; claws, dusky black.
Kennie writes, ' A very elegant variety, in the possession of Mr.
Bullock, had the upper parts marked as usual, but darker, and the
spots larger on the top of the head, back, and scapulars; the newly
moulted feathers on the two last, known as such by their comparative
brightness, were black, with the margins deeply and angularly scalloped
with white; the markings sirong, particularly on the tertials; tail
coverts, white; the rump having a mixture of dusky black and grey
in bars; the tail barred with zigzag lines; throat, white; fore part of
the neck and breast, streaked and spotted with black, the spots increasing
in size on the breast; middle of the belly, white, but feathers on the
side barred with black; some of the under tail coverts plain white,
others barred with black; the legs appeared to have been yellowish
or pale green; size and length of the bill and legs as usual. It was
not noticed at what season this bird was shot, but it was most probably
in the spring, a little before its usual time of departure, and it had
just begun to throw out its summer plumage on the back, scapulars,
and wing coverts, where the spots were larger, and much better defined
than on the old intermediate feathers.'