. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . superiorities,forkeder lightning than we happen to enjoy as British,)that is, the two middle ones and the outer one on eachside being longer than the others, is ash grey brown, thecentral feathers being much darker and glossy, with reddishwhite edges, in autumn grey margined with buff white, inwinter narrowly edged with white, the three outside featherspure white; upper tail coverts, dusky black with broadferruginous margins, in autumn dark brown edged with dullreddish brown; under tail coverts, white. The legs, whichare slender, and t
. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . superiorities,forkeder lightning than we happen to enjoy as British,)that is, the two middle ones and the outer one on eachside being longer than the others, is ash grey brown, thecentral feathers being much darker and glossy, with reddishwhite edges, in autumn grey margined with buff white, inwinter narrowly edged with white, the three outside featherspure white; upper tail coverts, dusky black with broadferruginous margins, in autumn dark brown edged with dullreddish brown; under tail coverts, white. The legs, whichare slender, and the toes, blackish grey; the outer one veryslightly connected at the base by a membrane to the middleone; claws, dull black. Of course in the present, as in other similar instances, thechanges of plumage from that of summer to that of winter,present great intermediate varieties. In the young of the first year the blaek is brown, andthe margins of the feathers buff at first soon change intonearly white. The eye streak is more distinct than in theold
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