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any part of tliis bird, but in tbe head and neck, where the change takes 
place in colour between the summer and winter plumage. This change 
is continued far down the hinder part of the neck to near the back. 
A specimen shot with this, is said to have been in summer plumage. 
Motacilla Yarrelli. February 1849 (middle of). — White feathers of 
throat falling off, and young black ones appearing. All the dark body 
plumage of the bird had become darker than in winter, without a 
change of feathers. 
Vanellus cristatus. February, 1849 (end of). — White feathers of 
throat falling out and new black ones appearing. 
Phalacrocorax carlo. March 3, 1849. — One of these birds, in the 
plumage of Bewick’s crested corvorant, shot in Belfast Bay to-day, 
came under my notice ; it had white patches on thighs, white bristly 
feathers on neck, plumage white, from near the eye downwards 
round the base of the bill ; but it was not in the very fullest state of 
this plumage : there was an elongated crest of greenish-black feathers 
on the back of the head, even more fully shown than in Yarrell’s figure 
(vol. iii. p. 480, 2nd edit.). This bird was a female, and contained 
many minute eggs, about sixty altogether ; the largest the size of a 
small pea, and others varying almost to that of clover-seed. The 
whole bird was in a state of moult, except the quill and tail-feathers ; 
two of the latter, however, being so. All the dark-coloured plumage 
was of a deeper tint than in winter. The belly had lost its winter 
white, and was now black. 
Motacilla boarula. March 10, 1842.— One shot to-day had the 
parts of the plumage, and those only that are of a different colour in the 
breeding season, in moult. A few of the old feathers remained on 
the throat changed to black, but these it was believed would drop off, 
and give place to new ones. 
Charadrius pluvialis. March 10, 1849. — A bird shot to-day was in 
spring plumage, as described by Yarrell (‘ Brit. Birds,’ vol. ii. p. 386, 
1st edit.). Old feathers appear with black, white, and golden mark- 
ings, as do new also ; some with white and others with black shafts 
bear these three markings. The shaft and lower portion of the fea- 
ther is sometimes white where the plumage is black at tip,* and black 
* This is also the case in one shot on April 27th, and in a grey plover, in adult 
summer plumage, preserved in the Belfast Museum. Mr. J. It. Garrett has re- 
marked it also in the spring moult of the lapwing and pied wagtail. 
