There are a male and female, in breeding plumage, in the Museum, and also one in winter plumage.
There are two specimens in the Museum, both in winter plumage.
Winter Plumage: Front of head and under-parts, white; bill nearly black.
Winter Plumage: Throat whitish; browner below; no band on bill.
Winter Plumage: Black parts sooty; brown replaced by white; grayer below; crests and ruff less conspicuous.
Winter Plumage: Streaked on head and neck with gray.
Some species undergo but little change in their appearance between summer or winter plumage; others are more remarkable in this respect.
The difference between the summer and winter plumageof this little bird is most extraordinary.
Linnaeus described birds of this species in summer plumage as distinct from individuals in winter plumage, naming them alpina and cinclus; but Temminck (and before him B.
I have seen birds in winter plumage as early as August 13 and as late as March 15.
It has probably occurred here more often than is known, for it closely resembles our red-backed sandpiper, especially in winter plumage.
This plumage is not worn long, for the postjuvenal molt of the body plumage begins late in August and lasts through September, producing a first-winter plumage.
A partial molt of the body plumage in September and October produces the first winter plumage, which is like that of the winter adult, except that the juvenal wings are retained.
There was no evidence of breeding; specimens examined were either immatures or adults in winter plumage, since they had yellow bills tipped with black and slight or no development of ornamental plumes.
Immature: Resembles adult in winter plumage, but feathers soft and downy.
Birds taken at Rota on October 20 and 26 were in winter plumage.
Similar to the adults in winter plumage, but darker brown, all the feathers edged with sandy brown; eyebrow, sides of face, and under surface of body with a strong tint of sandy buff.
The young birds may be told from the adults in winter plumage by their more tawny color, and by the ashy gray shade on the throat and chest, as well as by the fulvescent bars and notches to the feathers of the upper surface.
Adults in winter plumage do not differ very much from the summer plumage, but the under surface is much less distinctly streaked; the upper surface is very similar at both times of the year.
The upper parts in winter plumage and in the young are also less rufescent than in the eastern bird.
Winter plumage: Top of head black, with rusty markings, all feathers being tipped with white.
Less black in winter plumage, which is more grayish brown.
Winter plumage: Top of head black, with rusty markings, all feathers being tipped with white.
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