. A history of British birds . hole length of the male bird is forty-five the carpal joint to the end of the wing, twenty-fourinches and a half: the first quill-feather shorter than thesecond; the second shorter than the third or the fourth,which are the longest in the wing. The whole length of the female is thirty-six inches. Fromthe joint to the end of the wing, nineteen inches and a females generally do not exhibit the lateral plumes fromthe chin, nor the rufous pectoral band, but in the Transac-tions of the Linnean Society of Bordeaux, M. de Eoche-brune has remarked th
. A history of British birds . hole length of the male bird is forty-five the carpal joint to the end of the wing, twenty-fourinches and a half: the first quill-feather shorter than thesecond; the second shorter than the third or the fourth,which are the longest in the wing. The whole length of the female is thirty-six inches. Fromthe joint to the end of the wing, nineteen inches and a females generally do not exhibit the lateral plumes fromthe chin, nor the rufous pectoral band, but in the Transac-tions of the Linnean Society of Bordeaux, M. de Eoche-brune has remarked that when the female has arrived at herfull growth, at the age of three or four years, she has thesame external characters as the male, only somewhat lessdeveloped: a statement not confirmed by other authors. The young at a month old are covered with a pale buff-coloured down, barred upon the back, wings, and sides withblack. The outliue below is drawn, half the natural size, fromthe breast-bone of a female of the Great 216 ALECTORIDES. OTIDIDiE. OTIDIDjE.
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