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Lack, scapulars and wing- coverts, and has quite done 

 so in the most forward one : this one indeed is 

 quite in adult winter plumage, except a few of the 

 secondary quills, which retain a little of the old 

 brown markings ; hut for this and the black on the 

 bill he could not be distinguished from the adult 

 bird in winter ; but the other two have many of the 

 brown feathers remaining on the upper parts, espe- 

 cially on the wing-coverts ; the primary quills are 

 not changed, the dark part being dark dusky brown, 

 and there is no white spot at the tip ; the tail- 

 feathers are all mottled with dark brown ; the breasts 

 and flanks much clouded with pale brown ; the legs 

 and feet of all three are pale flesh-colour. The 

 adult bird in summer has the bill yellow, with a 

 patch of red on the angle of the lower mandible ; 

 irides straw-yellow; the whole of the head, neck, 

 breast, belly, flanks, tail and tail-coverts pure white ; 

 the back, scapulars, wing-coverts and tertials gull- 

 grey ; the longest of the scapulars and the tertials 

 tipped with white ; the longer primary quills are 

 nearly all black, with gull-grey on some part of the 

 inner web, and distinct triangular patches of pure 

 white at the tips. The only change in the winter is 

 on the head and neck, which are then streaked with 

 palish brown; the legs and feet are pale flesh- 

 colour. 



The eggs are of a light olive-brown, spotted with 

 two shades of dark brown : they are very much like 



