. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . as thirty pounds. The bill is dusky horn-colour; the legs bluish horn-colour ;iris hazel; head and neck ash-coloured; the upper parts ofthe feathering yellow ochre and rust-colour, barred with blackas represented in the Plate ; greater wing-coverts pale ash-colour. The primary quill-feathers are black, the secon-daries and spurious winglet are white, the tertials rufous,barred with black; the feathers of the tail are ochre-yellow,edged and tipped with white, with a broad black bar near theend. The tail is frequently carried erect, lik
. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . as thirty pounds. The bill is dusky horn-colour; the legs bluish horn-colour ;iris hazel; head and neck ash-coloured; the upper parts ofthe feathering yellow ochre and rust-colour, barred with blackas represented in the Plate ; greater wing-coverts pale ash-colour. The primary quill-feathers are black, the secon-daries and spurious winglet are white, the tertials rufous,barred with black; the feathers of the tail are ochre-yellow,edged and tipped with white, with a broad black bar near theend. The tail is frequently carried erect, like that of theturkey, with the feathers spread out like a fan. The legs arereticulated, the upper part of the toes scaled. The sides ofthe face, in the male, are ornamented with fringed, hairyfeathers, that stand out like the whiskers of a cat. The female nearly resembles the male in the colours of herplumage, but is not whiskered. The young birds in nestling plumage are mottled withreddish-white and dusky. The egg figured 159 is that of the Great fy
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