the knee with a red band Of garter, and are otherwise, as are the
toes, which are very Long, the hind one considerably produced as well
as the others, pale dull green: the latter are fringed out with scales.
Claw-, dark brown.
The female is like the male, but is less in size; the red on the
bill is deficient. The garter above the knee is also less bright.
The young are, at first, clothed in black hair-like down. In their
subsequent plumage the bill is dull green, the base darkest; the patch
on the forehead small, and partially covered with feathers; the head
on the sides is a mixture of blackish brown and white; the neck
on the sides vellowish brown; the throat, brownish white; the breast,
ash grey, tinged with yellowish brown, paler below, and almost without
the longitudinal white streaks; under tail coverts, yellowish; legs
and toes, dull green.
One was killed at Branford, near Ipswich, Suffolk, the Kith, of
December, 1M7, which had the1 bill greenish yellow at the tip, and
red ai the base; the iris red; the head greyish black; breast, greyish
white, inclining to chesnut on the sides, below black; the back light
chesnut; the wing coverts, primaries, and tertiaries, black, edged with
chesnut; the tail also black, edged with chesnut; upper tall coverts,
light chesnut; under tail coverts, white. I-egs and toes, green; all
the plumage of the body with the webs disunited, having the appearance
of hair.
The Etev. IE. 1'. Alington has furnished the drawing from which the
plate is taken.