348 Mr. T. Ayres on the 
210. .ZEgialites tricollaris (Yieill.). Three-collared 
Plover. 
The specimen sent was shot on 24th March. 
Balearic a regulorum, Licht. Southern Crowned Crane. 
Immature. This and three other young birds of the same 
age, and evidently from the same nest, were feeding together 
in a bit of swampy ground. 
[This specimen, which was nearly full-grown, had the irides 
. light ash-colour j the bill black, but with the base of the lower 
mandible pale ; the bare skin between the bill and the eye 
black, the adjacent space, which is occupied by the wattles in 
the adult, thickly clothed with short yellowish white down; 
and the legs and feet ashy black. Its plumage differs from 
that of the adult bird in the following particulars :—The front 
part of the head, instead of being black, as in the adult, is 
a rich fulvous, with a very few small black spots intermixed; 
the crest, which is about half-grown, the back of the head, 
and the upper part of the neck and throat are of a similar 
hue; but the colour, especially on the neck and throat, is paler 
than on the forehead, and is varied on the sides of the neck 
by the dark bases of the feathers being apparent ; the mantle 
is slaty black, with narrow tips to the feathers, some of these 
tips being rufous, others (especially those nearest the wings) 
being pale brown ; the wing-coverts are white, but with most 
of the feathers variegated by a subterminal slate-coloured 
mark and a much narrower rufous brown tip, and with the 
further exception of the coverts of the tertials, in which each 
feather is wholly banded with alternate transverse bars of 
slate-colour and rufous; on the bastard wing the feathers are 
more slate-coloured than in the adult, but have not also, as 
in the adult, a tinge of rufous; the lower back is of a dark 
* slate-colour intermingled with white, and with rufous tips to 
those feathers which lie nearest to the thighs and upper tail- 
coverts, the latter of which are black, tipped with fulvous; 
the under tail-coverts are composed of long downy feathers 
of a pale buff-colour, transversely barred with dull black, the 
abdomen and thighs are pale buff, slightly mingled with black; 
