. A history of British birds . figured Avastwenty-four inches ; the beak black ; the cere and iridesyellow; the top of the head, the cheeks, nape and upperpart of the neck, pale buff, each feather streaked or patchedin the centre with dark brown ; the back, wing-coverts andrump, clove-brown, some of the feathers edged with faAvn-colour; primaries brownish-black ; upper tail-coverts buffy-white, with an angular brown i)atcli near the end of eachfeather; upper surface of the tail buffy-white on the proximalhalf, the distal half brown. The chin, throat and breast,fawn-colour, tinged with ferrugin
. A history of British birds . figured Avastwenty-four inches ; the beak black ; the cere and iridesyellow; the top of the head, the cheeks, nape and upperpart of the neck, pale buff, each feather streaked or patchedin the centre with dark brown ; the back, wing-coverts andrump, clove-brown, some of the feathers edged with faAvn-colour; primaries brownish-black ; upper tail-coverts buffy-white, with an angular brown i)atcli near the end of eachfeather; upper surface of the tail buffy-white on the proximalhalf, the distal half brown. The chin, throat and breast,fawn-colour, tinged with ferruginous, streaked and patchedwith brown ; the belly almost uniform clove-brown ; thighsand tarsi covered with feathers of fawn-colour spotted withbrown : the toes yellow; the claws black : under surface ofthe primaries to the end of the broad part of the inner web,white, from the emargination, brownish-black: under tail-coverts uniform buffy-white: proximal half of the undersurface of the tail white, the distal half HONEY-BIJZZAHI). A CCIPITRES. 121FA LCONIIKE. ■^^- rJr
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