YE I,LOW-SHANKS. 18
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. Primaries, 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
bauds of dark grey on a white ground; under tail coverts, white.
Legs and toes, yellow.
