148 STREPSILAS INTEItPRES. 



Remarks. — M. Temminck is of opinion that this bird 

 moults only once in the year ; but, in the first place, I have 

 never met with a single individual killed in winter, that had 

 any red on its plumage ; and, secondly, both before their 

 departure and after their arrival individuals of the summer 

 plumage as described above are met with. A specimen 

 killed on Winter Island, on the 14th of June, 1822, is marked 

 as follows. 



Male in Summer. — Bill black; feet reddish-orange, 

 claws black ; the upper part of the head white, with broadish 

 longitudinal streaks of greenish-black edged with pale brown. 

 The sides of the head and upper hind neck greyish-white, 

 with faint brownish streaks. A brownish-black band extends 

 across the forehead ; a similar band on each side from the 

 base of the lower mandible ; these bands unite Avith a patch 

 of greenish-black occupying the cheek ; and from this a band 

 of the same colour proceeds down the neck, enlarging below 

 and meeting its fellow in front, forming a large greenish- 

 black patch on the lower part of the neck and fore part of 

 the breast, and extending backwards to the hind neck, and 

 below to the axilla. The lower part of the hind neck, the 

 scapulars, and the wing-coverts are pale chestnut brown, 

 with irregular patches of greenish-black ; the middle and hind 

 parts of the back are white; a broad brownish-black bar 

 across the rump ; the tail-coverts Avhite. The tail is white, 

 with a transverse bar of blackish-brown, broadest in the 

 middle, where it nearly includes all the exposed part, except 

 the tip. A spot on the side of the forehead, the throat, and 

 the upper part of the fore neck, the breast, the belly, and the 

 lower tail-coverts, the axillary feathers, and the lower wing- 

 coverts are pure white. The primaries are light blackish- 

 brown, the shafts more or less white, as are the inner edges. 

 A band of white extends across the secondaries, excepting the 

 inner six, which are pale blackish-broAvn, Avith large spots of 

 pale chestnut-biOAvn ; the secondary coverts are also Avhite. 



