CHII 



grow, and it 



light may bo it a 



littl s of others may no! 



pattern of the first coat Aether 



ore hatching or is acqui r ex bear 



relation to the coloration lumage. 



ndeed the colour is uniforir ?u'te 



dusky yellows and greens to pure bl d be an 



ingenious person who could trace any connec a the shades 



ie downy coat and the habits and s the ymmg. 



The ostrich and the apteryx, the llest of the 



flightless birds, are uniform' r of a dusky 



grey, the former gn ling 



seen in the other irks had 



been washed MV ^TAJ'i of down 



(aw Plate O^-JOY a> rjo -, n 



and a httle dark* the 



c nirijtt( >ens, 

 JM* d* woda 



being very darSB* 1110 ^ JM* d* woda ^Rh odj ot ^odi ight 



yellow o r penguins, 



black on the head. Until man came to disturb '-nguins had 



few enemies except the weather in the great rookeries in which they 

 breed and had no need of special protection from concealing colora- 

 tion. The downy coat of the albatross is sooty-brown. Pelicans are 

 hatched naked, but in a few days their flesh-coloured skin is covered 

 with a fluffy coat, pure white in colour. Flamingoes show no trace of 

 the brilliant scarlet that decorates their adult plumage, but are snowy- 

 white when they are in down. Screamers (Chi- are 



hatched appear in a uniform coat oi r on 



the head, and set off by the brillian ?yes 



and the naked legs. Newly hatchec ome 



species, as, for example, in the c? 

 swan (see Plate XI, p. 240), fr 



Some of the geese and ducks, p cies f 



lad in a monotonous unifon liite, 



wish or dusky, but this ! ibe. 



rig of the rails, coots and r 

 H-y are clad in their first dov 



t allic sheen recalling the v i v id colon ' 1 ts . The 



chic i Australian waterhen has its dn 



purple iridescence ; the black 



