268 LIMOSA RUFA. 



bars. The tail is white, tinged with red toward the end, 

 each feather with eight dusky bars. The smaller wing- 

 coverts are blackish-brown, broadly margined with pale 

 brownish-grey ; the alular feathers and primary coverts 

 brownish-black, margined with white ; the secondary coverts 

 blackish-grey, margined with yellowish-white ; the primary 

 quills greyish-black, with white shafts and margined with 

 white, the inner web paler, and dotted or marbled with 

 white ; the secondaries have the outer web darker, a central 

 white streak, and white margins ; the inner and their coverts 

 like the scapulars, with indented marginal spots. The fol- 

 lowing are the dimensions of the two individuals : — 



Length 16£ inches; extent of wings 29^; bill along the 

 ridge 3^; wing from flexure 8j ; tail %\%; tarsus 2-^; 

 middle toe l-j 2 ^, its claw -^j. 



Length 16f ; extent of wings 30 ; bill along the ridge 

 3-jV ; wing from flexure 9 ; tail 3^ ; tarsus 2-^ ; middle toe 

 l-j^rr, its claw -^j. 



The first of these I found to be a male. Its gizzard 

 contained a great quantity of small stones, mud, and frag- 

 ments of shells, but no animal substances. The account of 

 its digestive organ I have transferred to the article in which 

 the adult male is described. 



