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A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



notched same at sides. This plumage is acquired by complete moult 

 July to Dec. 



Adult male. Summer. — The body-feathers (not all scapulars 

 or all feathers of back and rump), usually tail-feathers, some inner- 

 most secondaries and coverts, some median and lesser coverts are 

 moulted Feb. to May, but not rest of wings ; a few winter body- 

 feathers are sometimes retained on upper- and under -parts especially 

 in females. Fore -head white ; crown and nape sepia more or less 

 obscured by broad white edges of feathers ; mantle, scapulars, new 

 feathers of back and rump dark sepia, feathers broadly tipped white 

 and scapulars notched white ; upper tail-coverts white, irregularly 



The Grey Plover (Squatarola s. squatarola) juvenile, and 

 worn juvenile inner secondary. 



barred black-brown ; a white band from fore-head, over eye to 

 breast forming a large white patch on side of breast ; vent white ; 

 under tail-coverts white, outer ones irregularly barred or marked 

 brown-black ; cheeks, sides of neck and remaining under -parts 

 black ; under wing-coverts and tail as winter ; wing as winter but 

 innermost secondaries and coverts and new wing-coverts as scapu- 

 lars. Female. — As male but upper -parts and wing-coverts narrowly 

 tipped white, under -parts browner-black and plentifully inter- 

 spersed with white ; under tail-coverts white irregularly marked 

 brown. 



Nestling. — Like nestling G. a. oreophilos but black and yellow of 

 crown and upper -parts duller ; nape white ; under -parts purer 

 white than in G. a. oreophilos. 



Juvenile. Male and female. — Fore-head and lores white, more 

 or less spotted sepia ; crown, nape, mantle, scapulars, back and 

 rump black-brown or sepia, feathers notched and edged pale gold 

 or cream ; upper tail-coverts white with obsolete bars of dusky- 

 brown, washed golden at tip and with faint terminal dusky lines ; 

 ear-coverts, cheeks and sides of neck white, sometimes suffused 

 golden streaked dusky ; chin white ; throat, breast and sides of 

 body white or light buff, sometimes washed pale golden, feathers 

 with median streaks and shadings or barrings of sepia and dusky- 



