. A history of British birds . the greenish hue of the upper partspasses off and is succeeded by a more general tint of hair-brown, on which the darker streaks are more plainly warm buff of the lower parts is almost entirely lost,these parts becoming a greyish-white, and the throat, breastand belly are streaked distinctly with deep hair-brown. Inthis stage of plumage the bird so much resembles the Rock-Pipit as at first sight to be easily mistaken for it, but thedarker colour of the legs and toes and the cleaner appearanceof the lower parts will serve to distinguish the present spe
. A history of British birds . the greenish hue of the upper partspasses off and is succeeded by a more general tint of hair-brown, on which the darker streaks are more plainly warm buff of the lower parts is almost entirely lost,these parts becoming a greyish-white, and the throat, breastand belly are streaked distinctly with deep hair-brown. Inthis stage of plumage the bird so much resembles the Rock-Pipit as at first sight to be easily mistaken for it, but thedarker colour of the legs and toes and the cleaner appearanceof the lower parts will serve to distinguish the present species,while the pure white markings of the two outer pairs oftail-feathers form, on closer inspection, an unfailing crite-rion. From the North-American Anthus ludoviclanus (whichalso occurs in Greenland) it may in this plumage be dis-tinguished by the absence of any greenish or yellowish tinge,and the larger size of the streaks on the lower parts, whichstreaks in that species assume the form of tear-shaped orarrow-headed 4 F 586 PASSERES. MOTACILLITJ^E.
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