no GAME BIRDS AND WILD FOWL. 



following spring these immature birds moult into summer 

 plumage, resembling that of adults, only the wing coverts retain 

 their rich summer hue all the winter until the next autumn moult, 

 when they are changed for the grayer ones of winter. The wing 

 coverts of adults only seem to be moulted once, in autumn, and 

 this portion of their plumage is always the same colour after the 

 bird reaches the adult stage of its existence. Young hatched 

 covered with down, and able to run shortly after they leave the 

 shell. 



Number about i8o species ; cosmopolitan in winter, but 

 dispersal more restricted in summer. 



