. A history of British birds . sides of thehead, the throat and neck are dull white, closely streakedwith greyish-black, the mandibular patch being hardly per-ceptible ; the breast and belly dull white, strongly barredwith greyish-black, the bars taking first the form of cres-cents and then of arrowheads, each feather being subter-minally marked ; wing-coverts and back greyish-olive, theformer spotted with dull white and yellow, and the latterwith yellowish-green ; rump dull yellow barred with olive.* The vignette is intended to represent the sternum of thisspecies. * Mr. Gurney has a beautifu
. A history of British birds . sides of thehead, the throat and neck are dull white, closely streakedwith greyish-black, the mandibular patch being hardly per-ceptible ; the breast and belly dull white, strongly barredwith greyish-black, the bars taking first the form of cres-cents and then of arrowheads, each feather being subter-minally marked ; wing-coverts and back greyish-olive, theformer spotted with dull white and yellow, and the latterwith yellowish-green ; rump dull yellow barred with olive.* The vignette is intended to represent the sternum of thisspecies. * Mr. Gurney has a beautiful variety, shot in Norfolk (Zool. p. 3800), inwhich the rump-feathers and some others are tipped with flame-colour. Similarexamples are said to be in the Museum at Pisa (Zool. p. 4250); but Italianornithologists seem to be silent respecting them, though Sig. de Betta records(Materiali per una Fauna Veronese, p. 174) a not less remarkable variety of afine canary-yellow, except the crown of the head which Mas bright 470 FICARI^. PIGID^. PICIDJE. f W-m
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