. A history of British birds. Birds. 550 BEITISH BIRDS. spring plumage is buffish brown, most of the feathers, except those of the head, nape, and the wing-coverts, having obscurely defined dark centres. The primaries and secondaries are brown ; the forehead, a line over the eye, the sides of the head and neck, and the rest of the underparts are slate- grey ; the shortest under taU-coverts are brown tipped with white, and the longest black tipped with white. Bill green, tinged with red at the base; legs and feet green; irides deep carmine. The female difi"ers from the male in having the s
. A history of British birds. Birds. 550 BEITISH BIRDS. spring plumage is buffish brown, most of the feathers, except those of the head, nape, and the wing-coverts, having obscurely defined dark centres. The primaries and secondaries are brown ; the forehead, a line over the eye, the sides of the head and neck, and the rest of the underparts are slate- grey ; the shortest under taU-coverts are brown tipped with white, and the longest black tipped with white. Bill green, tinged with red at the base; legs and feet green; irides deep carmine. The female difi"ers from the male in having the slate-grey confined to the forehead and eye-stripe^ the general colour of the underparts being bufi', shading into nearly white on the chin and throat, and into brown on the flanks, which are transversely barred with white. The winter plumage of both sexes scarcely difl'ers from the summer plumage of the adult female. Young in first plumage are somewhat more spotted on the upper parts) and have the eye-stripe and the whole of the underparts buffish white, obscurely barred with brown at the sides. Birds of the year are intermediate between young in first plumage and females in winter plumage. Young in down are Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seebohm, Henry, 1832-1895. London, Pub. for the author by R. H. Porter [etc. ]
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