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centre ones narrowly tipped with white and tinged with rufous. The 
underparts are pale yellowish brown, shading into white on the under tail- 
coverts. Bill in summer lead-blue, in winter pinkish brown ; legs, feet, and 
claws pale brown ; irides greyish white. The female is not very different 
from the male; but the colours are duller, and the white spots are not so 
pure. 
Young in first plumage have the wings and tail of the adult; but the 
black at the base of the bill and on the throat is absent, as is also the grey 
collar; the breast and flanks are barred with brown; and the head, 
throat, and upper parts are more or less suffused with yellow. This plu- 
mage is, however, changed into that of the adult by a moult in the first 
autumn. The autumn plumage of the adult is much richer than in summer, 
but does not otherwise differ. 
