. A practical handbook of British birds . lack bars and streaks ; chin and throat white,spotted dusky; lower-throat and breast fawn-brown or warm buff,feathers usually barred subterminally with dark sepia and broadlyedged white or buff ; flanks white washed sandy-brown or warmbuff and sometimes marked sepia ; remaining under-parts white ;tail-feathers sepia, sometimes irregularly marked buff and tippedwhite, two central pairs usually sepia with irregular bars of black-brown and usually of warm buff speckled brown ; new inner secon-aries as scapulars ; new median and lesser coverts ash-brown,ba
. A practical handbook of British birds . lack bars and streaks ; chin and throat white,spotted dusky; lower-throat and breast fawn-brown or warm buff,feathers usually barred subterminally with dark sepia and broadlyedged white or buff ; flanks white washed sandy-brown or warmbuff and sometimes marked sepia ; remaining under-parts white ;tail-feathers sepia, sometimes irregularly marked buff and tippedwhite, two central pairs usually sepia with irregular bars of black-brown and usually of warm buff speckled brown ; new inner secon-aries as scapulars ; new median and lesser coverts ash-brown,barred subterminally black-brown, sometimes shaded and barredwarm buff and tipped ash-brown and white or light buff. Nestling.—Down on fore-head pinkish-buff ; a black-brownmedian line from base of upper mandible to crown ; crown pinkishand yellowish-buff irregularly marked black-brown ; nape dusky,down tipped yellowish-buff; remaining upper-parts (includingback of thighs) yellowish-buff intermixed with velvety black-brown, THE RUFF. 559. Juvenile. down tipped pinkish-buff; ear-coverts and cheeks light buff;under-parts whitish suffused yellowish-buff. Juvenile. Male and female.—Crown sepia, feathers edged warmbuff; nape pale ash-brown, feathers fringed warm buff ; mantleand scapulars brown-black, feathers fringed warm or ochraceous-buff ; back, rump andupper tail - coverts asadult winter but sepiafeathers edged warmbuff ; ear-coverts andcheeks buff, narrowlystreaked sepia ; chinwhite or light buff ;throat, sides of neck,breast and flankswarm buff ; remain-ing under-parts as adult; tail ash-brown, feathers bordered blackishand fringed (and sometimes notched or barred) ochraceous-bufftowards tip ; wing as adult but innermost secondaries as mantle;greater, median and lesser coverts ash-brown bordered darkerbrown and fringed warm or ochraceous-buff. First winter. Male and female.—As winter adults but dis-tinguished by some retained juvenile scapulars and innermostsecondaries wh
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