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and median coverts with worn buff edges, also by one or two remaining 
juvenile upper tail-coverts. The bill is as in the juvenile, but the 
feet are pale pink and the iris reddish-yellow. 
Frrst SumMEeR.—(Not examined.) 
From February and March specimens handled it would appear 
that the first summer bird resembles the adult, but for the worn brown 
juvenile innermost secondaries and wing-coverts, but, owing to absence 
of material, it is impossible to say whether the first summer bird has 
as black a throat as the adult or not. Of two specimens in my col- 
lection, one 9/3/14 has the chin black, new feathers of throat black 
with white bases, while the other 28/4/15 9 is in full body-moult, but 
has the chin intermixed with white, the throat white, some feathers 
tipped black, while the new feathers coming in are. white. 
Genus Burhinus. 
StonE-CurRLEW (Burhinus ce. cedicnemus). 
ApuLtTs.—Complete moult from August to October. From March 
to May, there is a partial moult involving the body-feathers (not all 
the scapulars), the tail-feathers, innermost secondaries and coverts, 
some median and lesser coverts, but not the rest of the wings. There 
is no distinction between the winter and summer plumages. The 
sexes are alike. 
JUVENILE.—Male and female.—Much like the adult, but the upper- 
parts are paler, centres of the feathers sepia, not black-brown, and 
narrowly margined light, instead of warm, buff; the black-brown or 
sepia streaks on the head and nape are narrower; upper tail-coverts 
as in the adult, but the central ones marked with obsolete bars of 
sepia; under-parts as in the adult, but the lower throat and breast 
with narrower mesial streaks of sepia; the juvenile tail-feathers 
are like those of the adult, but the ground-colour is browner and 
more broken up with pale buffish obsolete bars, the outer feathers 
barred and marked dark brown and white and washed buff and with 
broad black or fawn tips (the markings and coloration of the tail- 
feathers vary considerably individually both in adults and juveniles) ; 
wing as in the adult, but greater coverts ash or fawn-brown fringed 
and notched light buff or white and more or less shaded sepia towards 
the tip; (in the adult the greater coverts are dark ash-brown shading 
into greyish-white or white towards tip, with black shafts, and with 
the tips of the outer-webs, sometimes both webs, black or black- 
brown forming a narrow black wing-bar absent in the juvenile); 
median coverts with central streaks and markings of sepia and 
fringed light buff and with greyish-white bases, the upper series 
greyish-white or light buff (forming an indistinct greyish-white or 
light buff wing-bar) with an oval sepia marking towards the tips of 
the feathers which are light buff; (in the adult the lower series of 
median coverts are pale grey narrowly edged buff with black-brown 
shaft-lines clouded towards the centre with black-brown, basal halves 
white, the upper series with basal halves uncovered forming an 
irregular white wing-bar, and distal halves black-brown, tipped grey 
or buff and with black-brown shafts). 
First WINTER AND SUMMER.—(Not examined.) 
GENUS Cursorius. 
CREAM-COLOURED CouRSER (Cursorius g. gallicus). 
ADULTS.—Complete moult from March to November. From 
December to February there is a partial moult involving the body- 
feathers, some scapulars, occasionally the tail-feathers, sometimes 
