tértials, and upper tail-cóverts, pale chestnut-brown, streaked
irregularly with', numerous, narrow lines of blaek; all the
wing-coverts, and the base óf thé .primaries, white, the distal
half of the primariés greyish^black ; the secondaries paitchèd
with black and white; the base of the .tail-feathers' white,
the ends mottled with black and huffy-white, .crossed with
two .marrow hars of black, the extreme, tips', white;; the
breast, and all the under surface of the body, white; ilegs,
toes, and claws, clay?brown. * The . total length is about
seventeen inches. From the carpal joint to: the 'end'of the
wing, nine inches and three-quarters. •
’ The males that are killed in the . winter-: half-year have the
feathers o f‘the neck óf i sandyrbrown streaked with black,
like the same part in the female, which dóes not Ghange with'
the season. .
. The adult female-is'of the same eik©'as the male, and has
the: head and heek. mottled 'and streaked with black on a
ground of sandy-brown; the chin" white j ,thb- neck- below
without any appearance*.óf transverse bars at any'season;
the wingTCoverts have? less - white than thoke .df the males;
the white'1 feathers on the breast-,? sides, ;and hanks are
marked with short-'"transverse harshof-,black.:- Females- M-
otherrespects . resembled -the..' males. In recently killed
examples; the 'bases of the, feathers,,-exceptingitho.se of the
head and neck, are frequently suffused w ilt 'd delicate,' and
evanescent,’ >rqse> tint,' similar to that which' has heenHnen-
tioned as occurring in the previous isf©eiestb r
- A- bird in down^ohialneddnjth© department of • Seinè-et-
Marne ,has fhé upper parts fawn-colohreiiawith.hroad'patehes
of hlackish-brown; from .the base of thé bill tb-'fite babble
a reddish-brown iStreak, and a white-streak-from ttóq bill to
thé' eye; .throat.'and upper partrof:neck pure» white, with:
rhsty yellow markings so disposed | as tb.mdicatö' faintly*tlie
outlines; -of the .collar and %orgët’v afterwards bomefely-fhe
male only p.bféast and'abdomen dull white.
4ZECT0RTEES. ' * ' . ' ' ' • ' OTIDIDvE.
,v; ; jp^is macqueuni-j J . % -O^ay.* g
M A G ^ u ||® . - MSTAR’P -./•
Otis ^Macquemi- -
The interest -yhi.ch at^aghes to this bird is-greatly ent
i c e d by ;it§i)eing a.ddedi, t o / ^ ; ^ # ^ r0Peai]’;-8E P es’
and to* the Fauna of, our, own island; a fine.^pecinapq^ in
t|p Museum of rtjae Fhilqsophicah, Sopi^ty, at York, -having
'l|e^..shqt,^y Mr. Gb .H^nslpf fn?a; stubble-^eld- Eir-ton
* dlhigiratipnl^f Indian Zoology, (lS3 3 -3 ff)|^