. A practical handbook of British birds . thers of tufts and upper ones of tippet chestnut as the feathers adjoining on ear-coverts andthroat (elongated feathers of tufts on sides of head and tippet of loose structure, those of tufts when fu1! grown $ 40-45, $ 30-40mm. long) ; chin, lores, cheeks, behind eyes and narrow line aboveeyes white (through centre of lores a line of naked skin, feathers on VOL. II. 2 G 450 A PBACTICAL HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS. upper-part of lores tinged buff) ; back of neck blackish-grey ; restof upper-parts darker, almost black, with a tinge of brown, someouter scap
. A practical handbook of British birds . thers of tufts and upper ones of tippet chestnut as the feathers adjoining on ear-coverts andthroat (elongated feathers of tufts on sides of head and tippet of loose structure, those of tufts when fu1! grown $ 40-45, $ 30-40mm. long) ; chin, lores, cheeks, behind eyes and narrow line aboveeyes white (through centre of lores a line of naked skin, feathers on VOL. II. 2 G 450 A PBACTICAL HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS. upper-part of lores tinged buff) ; back of neck blackish-grey ; restof upper-parts darker, almost black, with a tinge of brown, someouter scapulars with more or less white on basal portions and outerwebs and some with chestnut on outer webs ; throat below tippetand under-parts silky-white ; sides of neck with varying amountof rufous-buff tinge, flanks more rufous intermixed with brown-black, tips and often shafts of feathers being black or blackish;axillaries white, a few often with dusky tips ; under wing-covertswhite, a few feathers along edge of wing brown ; tail black some. The Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps c. cristatus). First winter. feathers partially white and chestnut ; primaries grey-brown, paleron inner webs, bases white or whitish, inner feathers tipped white ;secondaries white, outer ones usually marked brown on outer websand sometimes with shafts blackish at bases, inner ones with brownpatches on outer webs and occasionally with some rufous, inner-most blackish as scapulars ; greater and median coverts black-brown sometimes tipped rufous, outer greater usually with somewhite at base of inner webs ; lesser coverts white. This plumage isacquired by a moult of all body- and tail-feathers and innermostsecondaries and innermost greater coverts but not rest of wingFeb. to May, while even in June feathers of mantle are stillgrowing though crest and tippet are complete. Winter.—A com-plete moult commences July or Aug., so that birds with some body-moult may be found in all summer months, and moult of bodyseem
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