STONECHAT. 55 



shape with light greyish or brownish yellow; chin and throat, 

 greyish; breast, light yellowish brown, waved or mottled with 

 a different shade, paler than in the male; back, greyish brown, 

 the feathers spotted with dusky white at the end of each. 

 Greater and lesser wing coverts, tipped partially with light 

 red, and a few of the inner ones are more or less white; 

 primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries, brownish black, the two 

 first of the former edged with brownish white, the others 

 with brownish red. Tail, brownish black, the feathers edged 

 with brownish red, the outer one with brownish white; upper 

 tail coverts, reddish brown. Legs and toes, greyish brown. 



The young males after the first moult resemble the adult 

 female, and after the second they gradually come to their 

 proper plumage. The moult is completed in November. 



