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According to Seebohm, adult males 

 in moulting-plumage (or, as I should term 

 it, in post-nuptial plumage) "are more 

 brilliantly coloured than usual, the prin- 

 cipal difference being that the black and 

 white vermiculated upper parts are changed 

 to dark brown barred with chestnut and 

 huffish white, which is also the colour of 

 the upper breast, whilst the flanks are 

 nearly uniform chestnut." 



According to Mr. De Winton, as quoted 

 by Dr. Sharpe, " After the breeding season 

 both males and females assume a very 

 distinct summer dress of reddish brown, 

 though the female is not quite so rufous. 

 In the male, all traces of the beautiful 

 breeding-dress disappear." 



Mr. Howard Saunders, in his revision 

 of Yarrell's " British Birds," quoting Mr. 

 Cecil Smith, says : " The adult male 

 birds undergo considerable change in their 

 appearance towards the end of June, or the 

 beginning of July ; at which time the head, 

 neck, breast and flanks become a rich 

 rusty-red, but always so much brighter 

 than the browner tints of the female, that 

 the sexes may easily be distinguished." 



Dr. Blanford writes : — " After the breed- 

 ing season the male moults into a dress 

 much resembling the female, except that 



