. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . Hepburn informs me that it is the only Wagtail that re-mains all winter, in his neighbourhood, in the interior of EastLothian, the Pied Wagtail departing in the middle of October,and not returning until near the end of February. Young.—The young when fully fledged have the bill dusky,the feet yellowish-brown, the claws light brown.
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . Hepburn informs me that it is the only Wagtail that re-mains all winter, in his neighbourhood, in the interior of EastLothian, the Pied Wagtail departing in the middle of October,and not returning until near the end of February. Young.—The young when fully fledged have the bill dusky,the feet yellowish-brown, the claws light brown. The upperparts are grey, tinged with green, the rump greenish-yellow ;the wings and tail as in the adult, but the former with a trans-verse bar formed by the greyish tips of the secondary is an ochraceous streak over the eye ; the throat isbrownish-white ; a faintly marked crescent of dull grey fea-thers is seen on the fore-neck, of which the lower part and theanterior portion of the breast, are dull greyish-red ; the sidesgrey ; the rest of the lower parts greyish-white, tinged withyellow behind, the lower tail-coverts pale yellow. Progress toward Maturity.—At the first autumnal moult,the bird assumes its complete Fig. 157. 244 SAXICOLINyE. STONEGHATS AND ALLIED SPECIES. Feom among the very numerous species of birds belongingto the order Cantatores may be selected those which in formand habits bear a more or less decided resemblance to theWheatear, and which may be formed into a group so blendedon all sides with others, that the species on its limits may withequal propriety be referred to them. If any general and cha-racteristic idea can be given of this group, it may perhaps beexpressed as follows :— The bill is rather short, straight, slender, tapering, depressedat the base, compressed beyond the nasal groove; the uppermandible with its dorsal outline declinate and straight at thebase, convex toward the tip, which is slightly decurved andobso
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