dark slate grey, the ends white; tertiaries, dark slate grey, the tips of
some of them while. Greater and lesser under wing coverts, white.
Tail, white; upper and under tail coverts, white. Legs and toes,
yellow; claws, dusky.
The young are at first covered with down of a grey and brown
colour, and become full-Hedged in a month or live weeks. When a
year old the bill is dark horn-colour, the base pale brown; iris, dark
brown, a dark spot before the eye. Head, crown, neck, and nape,
white, streaked with dusky brown; chin and throat, white; breast,
white, mottled with dusky brown; back, greyish brown, the shaft of
each feather deep brown, and the tips and edges of the feathers
greyish white. Greater and lesser wing coverts, greyish brown, margined
with yellowish grey or white; the shafts deep brown; primaries,
blackish brown; secondaries, blackish brown, with narrow greyish
yellow tips; greater and lesser under wing coverts, white. The tail
has a blackish brown bar at the end, edged with white, the middle
feathers varied with most of the former, and the outer ones with most
of the latter colour; upper tail coverts, white; under tail coverts, white,
on.tiled with dusky brown. Legs and toes, pale brown.
The full plumage is not arrived at till the third year.