100 BRITISH BIRDS. 



in the Juvenile, but the moulted inner secondaries black, not brownish- 

 black ; primary -coverts as in the Juvenile ; greater-coverts black, with 

 blue edges to the outer webs and white tips (the three or four innermost 

 with yellowish tips) ; median and lesser-coverts blue. 



FEMALE. Like the male, but duller, the black of the head being 

 less glossy and less blue ; the throat and tipper breast brownish-black, 

 not blue-black ; the black on the breast and belly browner and lesser 

 extensive ; the primary-coverts browner ; the greater-coverts tinged with 

 green ; central tail-feathers not so bright. 



FmsT Summer-Plumage. Acquired by abrasion and 

 fading. 



There is no marked difference between this plumage and that of the 

 First Winter. The head and throat are not so glossy ; the blue-black 

 on the sides of the neck is wider, through the wearing off of some of 

 the green tips to the lower feathers ; the tips of the greater coverts are 

 smaller and whiter; the remiges and prim,ary -coverts are browner and 

 their edgings narrower. 



Adult Winter- Plumage. Acquired by a complete moult. 



MALE. Like that of the First Winter, but the remiges are blacker, 

 with brighter blue edgings to the primaries and primary-coverts, and 

 blue, not green, edges to the secondaries, except the innermost, which 

 are like those in the First Winter. 



FEMALE. Like that of the First Winter, but the same changes as 

 in the male. 



Adult Summer-Plumage. Acquired in the same manner 

 as the First Summer-Plumage and differs from the adult 

 Winter-Plumage in the same way. 



THE BRITISH COAL-TITMOUSE. 



Parus ater britannicus , Sharpe and Dresser. 



Male and Female. 



Down-Plumage. Greyish. Distribution — Inner supra- 

 orbital, occipital, humeral and spinal {fide C. B. Ticehurst, 

 Vol. II., p. 190). 



Juvenile Plumage. Acquired while in the nest, the Down- 

 Plumage being completely moulted. 



Forehead, lores, crown and sides of hind-neck sooty-black ; middle of hind- 

 neck, extending on to the mantle, yellowish-white ; m,antle, scapidars, 

 back, rump and upper tail-coverts dull olive-green ; ear-coverts, cheeks 

 and sides of neck yellow ; chin and upper-throat sooty-black ; breast 

 and belly pale yellow ; flanks and under tail-coverts yellowish-buff ; 

 tail-feathers brownish-black, with oUve-green edges to the outer webs ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; primaries and secondaries 

 brownish-black, with olive-green edges to the outer webs and white 

 edges to the inner webs, the two innermost secondaries with the inner 

 webs pale and with broad pale tijjs, the next three with narrow pale 

 tips ; primary-coverts like the primaries ; greater and Tnedian coverts 

 brownish-black, with broad olive-green edges and yellowish-white tips ; 

 lesser-coverts brownish-black, tinged with olive-green. 



