. A history of British birds . rters. Fromthe carpal joint to the tip of the wing, three inches andthree-eighths : the second and seventh quills nearly equal;the third, fourth and fifth longer than the sixth, nearlyequal and longest. The female is not very unlike that of the preceding species,but is generally somewhat darker. The upper parts are of adull brownish-grey, the tertials margined with bufty-white ;tail more dusky, and the outer pair of feathers with the oute?web brown ; the body beneath light grey. The young birds in their first plumage are said to resembleadult females; but the cha
. A history of British birds . rters. Fromthe carpal joint to the tip of the wing, three inches andthree-eighths : the second and seventh quills nearly equal;the third, fourth and fifth longer than the sixth, nearlyequal and longest. The female is not very unlike that of the preceding species,but is generally somewhat darker. The upper parts are of adull brownish-grey, the tertials margined with bufty-white ;tail more dusky, and the outer pair of feathers with the oute?web brown ; the body beneath light grey. The young birds in their first plumage are said to resembleadult females; but the changes the males undergo beforethey assume the perfect plumage, and the length of time theprocess takes do not seem to be well understood. Youngmales sometimes breed in immature plumage, and birds sobehaving were once regarded by M. Gerbe as a distinctspecies, to which he gave the name of liutlcilla cairii, buthe has since relinquished that opinion. The vignette represents the nest from the plate inSchinzs work before SPONECIIAT. PA SSERES. :^39 :.
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