. A practical handbook of British birds . th narrower edges (sometimesmantle almost uniform ash-brown) ;ear-coverts, cheeks and sides of neck as winter ; chin and throat white ; lower-throat streaked dusky ;upper-breast ash-brown, feathers with faint subterminal bands ofdark brown and fringed warm buff ; a narrow sepia line succeededby a broad white band (sometimes bordered below by a narrow sepialine) separates upper-breast from orange-cinnamon lower-breastand flanks ; belly black; under tail-coverts cream-white, outerones tinged pale orange-cinnamon ; remaining under-parts, tailand wings as
. A practical handbook of British birds . th narrower edges (sometimesmantle almost uniform ash-brown) ;ear-coverts, cheeks and sides of neck as winter ; chin and throat white ; lower-throat streaked dusky ;upper-breast ash-brown, feathers with faint subterminal bands ofdark brown and fringed warm buff ; a narrow sepia line succeededby a broad white band (sometimes bordered below by a narrow sepialine) separates upper-breast from orange-cinnamon lower-breastand flanks ; belly black; under tail-coverts cream-white, outerones tinged pale orange-cinnamon ; remaining under-parts, tailand wings as winter. —Males in summer are usually not sobrightly coloured as females and area of black on belly is smallerbut this seems to vary individually, some males appearing quiteas richly coloured. Nestling (Plate 9).—Down on fore-head white or light buffwith a median black line extending from base of bill to crown ;crown ochraceous-buff and white irregularly marked black ; onhinder crown a crescent-shaped patch of white, below which a. The Dotterel (Charadrius morinellus).Adult, summer. THE DOTTEREL. 513 black semi-circular line extends below eye from lores to lores ;nape white intermixed with dusky; remaining upper-parts sandyto ochraceous-buff irregularly mottled black and greyish-white ;superciliary stripe, ear-coverts and cheeks white ; a narrow blackishline extends from lores through eye to nape ; remaining under-pays greyish-white, down dusky at base, breast suffused cream. Juvenile.—Crown blackish, feathers plentifully margined sandy-isabelline ; buff-white eye-stripes meet on nape ; mantle andscapulars black-brown, feathers fringed sandy-isabelline andcream ; back and rump ash-brown, feathers shaded sepia towardstip and broadly edged sandy-isabelline ; rest of upper-parts asadult winter ; cheeks, throat and sides of neck cream or warmbuff narrowly streaked dusky ; chin white ; breast as adult winterbut with central streaks and shadings or subterminal bars of sepiam
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