562 A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



ones white on inner webs, one next innermost more or less white, 

 innermost and their coverts dark ash-grey, narrowly edged white ; 

 primary-coverts blackish-grey faintly (inner ones broadly) tipped 

 white ; greater coverts dark ash with broad white tips forming a 

 wing-bar ; median coverts ash-grey, edged white and with dark 

 shafts ; lesser coverts blackish -grey, lower ones tipped white. This 

 plumage is acquired by complete moult July to Nov. N.B. — Four 

 adults, February, Yucatan, all had 2nd primary in quill and were 

 apparently completing wing-moult. 



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



sometimes not all, if any, feathers of back and rump and not all 



upper tail-coverts), sometimes central pair of tail-feathers, usually 



some innermost secondaries and coverts, some median and lesser 



coverts, but not rest of wings nor tail-feathers, are moulted March 



__ to May ; winter body- 



,<^5^ "/^>v feathers are sometimes 



/. : T~ - "^"^ $v^ retained on upper- and 



■ - ^t^^^N^^ under -parts. Fore -head 



^^ : -: : ^ N \;\\ and crown streaked black, 



' V ^ : \^\am feathers broadly edged at 



\ vNv ^ x -^\V sides light pink - cinna- 



\ J. mon and tipped white ; 



, ,. '„ .. 7t , ' , , nape white, washed warm 



The Sanderling (Crocetha alba). Male adult. -i re -i / i i -1 i 



winter. bun and streaked dusky- 



brown ; mantle, scapu- 

 lars, new feathers of back and rump and upper tail-coverts 

 black, feathers notched and fringed pink-cinnamon or orange - 

 cinnamon and tipped white or pale ash-grey ; remaining upper- 

 parts as winter ; chin white, sometimes some feathers washed pink- 

 cinnamon and spotted dusky ; loral streak, cheeks, ear -coverts, 

 sides of neck, throat and upper-breast pink-cinnamon, feathers 

 spotted or streaked sepia or dusky and tipped white, sometimes 

 upper -throat white ; upper-breast with wavy sepia bars ; remain- 

 ing under -parts white ; tail as winter but new central pair sepia 

 edged orange -cinnamon ; wing as winter but new innermost 

 secondaries and coverts and new median and lesser coverts sepia, 

 tipped white and more or less notched and edged pink-cinnamon. 

 Female. — As male but upper -parts greyer, feathers of crown edged, 

 and of mantle and scapulars edged and notched greyish-white in- 

 stead of pink-cinnamon, nape not suffused buff as in male ; under - 

 parts as male but pink-cinnamon areas usually paler (sometimes 

 white) ; new innermost secondaries and coverts broadly edged and 

 tipped white, pink-cinnamon markings sometimes more or less absent. 

 Nestling. — Fore -head buff with a median black line from base 

 of upper mandible to crown ; nape buff, down with dusky bases ; 

 rest of upper -parts variegated light buff, warm buff and black and 

 more or less spangled white ; lores buff, two black lines across lores 

 towards eye ; under -parts white, cheeks, chin and throat suffused 

 light buff. 



