. Birds of Massachusetts and other New England states. Birds; Birds. 466 BIRDS OF MASSACHUSETTS. Downy Young Killdeer About i natural size. outer webs, all with white spaces on inner webs; greater wing-coverts broadly tipped white, primary coverts narrowly so tipped; secondaries dusky with white bases and tips; middle tail-feathers grayish-brown, darker toward tips, which are broadly colored like rump; rest of tail like rump but with black subter- minal band, outer tail-feathers chiefly black and white; bill black, iris dark brown; naked eye-ring "orange red or scarlet"; legs and fee
. Birds of Massachusetts and other New England states. Birds; Birds. 466 BIRDS OF MASSACHUSETTS. Downy Young Killdeer About i natural size. outer webs, all with white spaces on inner webs; greater wing-coverts broadly tipped white, primary coverts narrowly so tipped; secondaries dusky with white bases and tips; middle tail-feathers grayish-brown, darker toward tips, which are broadly colored like rump; rest of tail like rump but with black subter- minal band, outer tail-feathers chiefly black and white; bill black, iris dark brown; naked eye-ring "orange red or scarlet"; legs and feet variable, pale pinkish-gray to pale grayish-yellow, flesh color or "pale light clay ; Young in first winter plumage: Similar to adult breeding plumage. Young in juvenal plumage: Like adults, but feathers of upper plumage more or less distinctly margined rusty or buffy, and black bands narrower, black more or less replaced by gray or brownish feathers; white of neck-band often tinted brown in front. Downy young: Above brownish-gray minutely and indistinctly mottled darker; head with blackish line from eye to eye over fore- head continued round back of head, another hehind eye similar to those of adults; lower back and rump with mid- dle stripe and two side stripes of black; sides occasionally pinkish-cinnamon; fore wing striped black, hind wing white; forehead and under down white, a white collar and a black one encircle neck in order named. Measurements. — Length to in.; spread to ; folded wing to ; tail to ; bill .60 to .90; tarsus to Weight about 3 to 3± oz. Sexes about same size. Molts. — Juvenal body-plumage (not including back, rump or all scapulars) some or all of tail, some innermost secondaries and wing-coverts are molted August to October; next, or prenuptial, molt in spring is like that of adults and bird then becomes as adult; adults have an incomplete prenuptial molt (February to June), includ
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