. A history of British birds . of the bodyand wings white. An example killed at Malaga on the 2ndof August had the breast and under parts suffused with arosy tint. Before leaving this country the plumage on the uppersurface of the body in the young bird loses the brown colour,becoming of a more uniform slate-grey, but clouded withdark lead-grey. By the following spring few signs of imma-turity remain excepting a darkish line along the carpals ;and at that season some dark feathers are assumed on theunder parts, but the full nuptial dress is not acquired untilthe second spring, when the bird is
. A history of British birds . of the bodyand wings white. An example killed at Malaga on the 2ndof August had the breast and under parts suffused with arosy tint. Before leaving this country the plumage on the uppersurface of the body in the young bird loses the brown colour,becoming of a more uniform slate-grey, but clouded withdark lead-grey. By the following spring few signs of imma-turity remain excepting a darkish line along the carpals ;and at that season some dark feathers are assumed on theunder parts, but the full nuptial dress is not acquired untilthe second spring, when the bird is ready to breed. Thedegree of darkness on the under parts depends upon the ageof the individual. In the nestling the down of the upper parts is of awarm reddish-buff; forehead ruddy-brown ; crown, back, andshoulders streaked with black ; a small white spot on thechin; throat, and lower part of cheeks, sooty-brown ; restof the lower parts brownish-buff in the newly-hatched bird,afterwards white, inclining to buff on the VOL. III. 3 X 522 GA VlJi. LARID^.
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