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S YS TEMA TIC S YNOPSIS. — LIMICOLjE. 



sexes hardly diflFer at any season, though the 9 in breeding dress may have the black 

 parts less pure or less complete. Young : No black coronal bar, the white of forehead 



reaching bill and eyes, and prolonged over the latter; neck-ring and loral stripe gray, not 

 black; bill mostly black. Upper parts with slight whitish or rusty edging of the feathers. 



