. Stray feathers. Journal of ornithology for India and its dependencies . tely broken points of difference exist, but to describe them would,only be confusing, as the above are ample for recognition. I have not as yet been able to examine a young bird ofthe same year as that in which it was hatched, when theplumage is fresh. Another link which is missing is the stagebetween the following April, when the mantle is mainly grey,but the wings and tail are brown, and the spring after that,when the mantle is wholly grey, but there are still somebrown mottlings on the carpals and primary cov
. Stray feathers. Journal of ornithology for India and its dependencies . tely broken points of difference exist, but to describe them would,only be confusing, as the above are ample for recognition. I have not as yet been able to examine a young bird ofthe same year as that in which it was hatched, when theplumage is fresh. Another link which is missing is the stagebetween the following April, when the mantle is mainly grey,but the wings and tail are brown, and the spring after that,when the mantle is wholly grey, but there are still somebrown mottlings on the carpals and primary coverts and alittle dark on the tail; the black hood is then assumed for thefirst time. L. ichthyaetus must, therefore, be substituted for L. affinisin the list of Gilgit birds. 246.—Gelochelidon anglica, Mont. (983.) I secured an adult male passing through on 1st August;the black of the head is changing to the winter stage ofplumage. Two days later I secured a young bird of the year ;the head is white, marked with brown streaks, and the wholeback is smeared with
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