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the latter has a few dark feathers on the flanks; back, a mixture
of blackish brown and brownish grey, the feathers white at the base.
The wings have the first quill feather the longest; they reach
when closed beyond the end of the tail. Greater and lesser wing
coverts, blackish brown, bordered with a lighter shade of the same,
the edges of the middle and lower ones forming two light-coloured
bars across the wing; primaries, blackish brown, the shafts of the
s a i u c colour. Greater and lesser under wing coverts, white. The tail,
which is rounded or wedge-shaped, consists of twelve feathers, the
outer pair white, edged and broadly tipped with blackish brown, the
next four pair like these, but only slightly edged, the tips of each
pair being darker as they approach the middle; the shafts of all white,
except the middle pair, which arc brownish black except at the base,
and have the shafts of the former colour. Upper tail coverts, white,
and elongated; under tail coverts, white, with a little grey. Legs,
dusky yellow; toes, dusky yellow at the base, the remainder black;
claws and webs, black.
The above account is compiled from that given in the 'Zoologist,'
page 3691, by Alfred Newton, Esq., of Elvedon Hall, near Thetford,
Norfolk.
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