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MOULT OF WADERS. 201 
AvuTUMN MoULT OF THE ADULT. 
(A) Breeding-haunts. None moulting. 
(B) On migration south. Three August, Yorkshire, Hampshire, 
and Essex, have acquired a good deal of winter plumage but are not 
in moult. 
(c) In winter quarters. One August, Malay Peninsula, moulting 
body-feathers, one December, Upper Burma, moulting the primaries, 
one not dated, Australia, in full body- and wing-moult. 
SPRING MouLT oF THE ADULT. 
(A) In. winter quarters. Three March, Malay Peninsula, in body- 
moult, one also moulting the innermost secondaries; two April, 
Caleutta, one April, 8.W. Africa, and two May, India, in body-moult. 
(B) On migration north. Two April, Orotava, Tenerife, and one 
May, Cyprus, in body-moult; three May, China, in full body-moult. 
Many specimens from Spain, Italy, Egypt, China, etc., were not in 
moult. 
(c) In breeding-haunts. None moulting. 
JUVENILE. 
(A) In breeding-haunts. None moulting. 
(B) On migration south. One November, North France, in body- 
moult; one October, Isle of Sheppey, as above and many not in moult. 
(c) In winter quarters. One October, Ceylon, three November, 
Cape Colony, and one December, British Burma, all in body-moult, 
one bird also moulting the central pair of tail-feathers. 
LITTLE STINT (#. m. minuta). 
DistTRIBUTION.—Breeds west Siberian tundras and islands to North 
Cape, and migrates south to Africa and India. 
Autumn Movutt oF THE ADULT. 
(A) In breeding-haunts. Two July, Yenesei, one beginning and one 
in full body-moult: three July, Petchora, starting moult on head 
(one of these birds having been shot from a nest with eggs), one 
July, Petchora, has acquired a few new winter feathers, but is not 
in moult; two August, Russian Lapland, are just commencing the 
body-moult. 
(B) On migration south. Two August, South Spain and Nyassaland, 
starting body-moult. 
(c) In winter quarters. Two August, India, in body-moult, one 
moulting the inner primaries; one August, Transvaal, and one October, 
Damara Land, in body-moult ; two November and February, Cape 
Colony, in body- and wing-moult, the November specimen moulting the 
tail as well. 
SprinG Moutt oF THE ADULT. 
(A) In winter quarters. One March, South Andaman, in body- 
moult ; two March, Ceylon, in body-moult, and one of them moulting 
the outer primaries as well; one April, Transvaal, in body-, tail- and 
wing-moult ; several May specimens from India in full body-moult, 
some moulting the primaries as well; one May, Transvaal, in full 
body-moult. 
