. A history of British birds . on of birds in theBritish Museum, which has been already mentioned ashaving been killed in Kent, and a specimen of a young WOODCHAT. 219 female formerly in the Museum of the Zoological Society,which bird belonged to the collection of Mr. Vigors; boththese are api^arently in the plumage of the second or thirdyear, and may be thus described: Head, and nape of theneck, red; back and wings hair brown, without any trans-verse lines ; scajmlars and edges of the tertials yellowish-white ; rump inclining to grey; tail-feathers clove-brown ;all the under surface of the bo
. A history of British birds . on of birds in theBritish Museum, which has been already mentioned ashaving been killed in Kent, and a specimen of a young WOODCHAT. 219 female formerly in the Museum of the Zoological Society,which bird belonged to the collection of Mr. Vigors; boththese are api^arently in the plumage of the second or thirdyear, and may be thus described: Head, and nape of theneck, red; back and wings hair brown, without any trans-verse lines ; scajmlars and edges of the tertials yellowish-white ; rump inclining to grey; tail-feathers clove-brown ;all the under surface of the body dull white, tinged withred, but without bars; beak, legs, and toes, dark brown. Examples of the Woodchat from Egypt in winter-plumagepresent very great variety, and have been the cause of manyerrors. Several of the smaller Shrikes, of which this species isone, are by some authorities removed from the genus Lauius,and for their accommodation a genus Eiiiieuctonus has beenerected—a proceeding which seems scarcely 220 PASSERES. MUSCICAPID/E.
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