THE BLACK-Y/INGED STILT. 647 



fail-feathers as adult but usually subterminally barred buff and 

 sepia ; wing duller and with less gloss, remiges with inner webs 

 browner, inner primaries tipped white or buff, secondaries broadly 

 tipped white ; innermost secondaries and coverts sepia, bordered 

 'buff, outer webs faintly glossed metallic -green ; greater, median 

 and lesser coverts dull metallic -green, narrowly tipped light buff, 

 proximal median ones browner, innermost sepia. Female. — As 

 male, but median coverts sepia, edged warm buff, distal ones 

 slightly glossed metallic -green on outer webs. 



First winter. Male. — As adult but crown to below eye including 

 ear-coverts mouse-grey (fore-head and lores white) ; nape, sides 

 of neck, upper-mantle and upper-breast pale mouse-grey, feathers 

 mostly with narrow white tips ; mantle and scapulars hair-brown 

 more or less glossed dull green, feathers with faint white tips ; 

 tail as adult except for worn juvenile feathers ; wing as juvenile 

 but innermost secondaries and coverts hair-brown with slight green 

 gloss and narrowly tipped white, new median and lesser coverts 

 dull metallic -green with narrow hair-brown tips. The juvenile 

 body-feathers (not all scapulars), two or three central pairs of tail- 

 feathers (sometimes all), some innermost secondaries and coverts 

 and most median and lesser coverts, but not rest of wings are 

 moulted July to Feb. First summer. — Apparently all the body- 

 feathers, sometimes two central pair of tail-feathers, some inner- 

 most secondaries and coverts, some median and lesser coverts are 

 moulted Feb. to June but not wings. Coloration as first winter 

 but crown, region behind eye, nape and upper-mantle intermixed 

 with white feathers, which are sometimes tipped mouse -grey on 

 hinder crown and dark or blackish-grey on nape, in others crown 

 and nape white, feathers with ash -brown bases more or less imper- 

 fectly concealed ; mantle, scapulars and innermost secondaries 

 glossed dull metallic -green, feathers shading to hair -brown and 

 mostly broadly tipped same ; cheeks, ear -coverts and sides of neck 

 white usually intermixed with a few pale mouse-grey feathers. 



First winter. Female. — As male but mantle and scapulars 

 hair-brown without green gloss, feathers faintly tipped white, 

 innermost secondaries and coverts hair-brown usually without 

 green gloss. N.B. — White edges to feathers of upper-parts are lost 

 h>y abrasion. First summer. — As first winter female but crown, 

 nape, upper-mantle, cheeks, ear-coverts and sides of neck inter- 

 mixed with white feathers. Moult apparently as male. 



Second winter. Male. — As adult winter male but crown to below 

 •eye and ear-coverts (not fore-head and lores which are white) black- 

 brown or mouse-grey ; nape, sides of neck and upper-mantle 

 mouse-grey, feathers with narrow white edges. Second summer. — 

 Head and neck all round, a few feathers on mantle and scapulars, 

 some upper and under tail-coverts, some feathers on under -parts, 

 one or two innermost secondaries and coverts but not tail or rest of 

 wings are moulted Feb. to June (few examples examined). As 

 »adult and apparently always with some black on crown and nape. 



