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MACHETES PUGNAX. THE COMMON RUFF. 



Tringa pugnax. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 247. Summer. 



Tringa littorea. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 251. Young.— Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 731. 



Tringa pugnax. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 725. Summer. 



Buff. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Supplt. 



Becasseau comhattant. Tringa pugnax. Temm. Man. d'Orn. II. 731. 



Tringa pugnax. Buff. Flem. Brit. Anim. 110. 



Machetes pugnax. Buff. Selb. Illustr. Brit. Ornith. II. 130. 



Tringa pugnax. Buff. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 207. 



Machetes pugnax. Bonap. Comp. List. 50. 



Male in winter with the bill brown, the feet greenish- 

 yellow, the throat and abdomen white, the fore neck and part 

 of the breast pale reddish-brown, spotted with dark brown ; 

 the upper parts variegated with brownish-black and light-red. 

 Female similar, but with the upper parts lighter, the loivcr 

 more grey, the bill and feet dusky. Male in summer, toit/t 

 numerous fleshy tubercles on the face, two occipital tufts and 

 a very large ruff of elongated feathers on the neck ; the colour 

 of the plumage varying in different individuals, and even in 

 the same at different periods of the same season; the bill and 



