506 



CHARADRIIMD. 



bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, fringed with 

 white at the ends and on the outer webs of the secondaries, the 

 inner ones edged with sandy buff with sub-terminal black markings, 

 before which are some rufous bars ; tail-feathers dark brown, with 

 a few mottlings and bars of sandy buff near their ends ; crown of 

 head sandy rufous, with dark brown streaks ; lores and an eye- 

 brow pale buff, with very narrow dusky streaks ; the hind-neck 

 ashy, washed with sandy buff, and mottled with dusky-brown 

 centres to the feathers ; feathers in front of the eye and sides 

 of face pale cinnamon-buff, like the lower throat and fore-neck, the 

 chin whiter ; chest and sides of body ashy grey, washed with 

 cinnamon-buff; the centre of the breast, abdomen, under tail- 

 coverts, axillaries, and under wing-coverts white ; quill-lining pale 

 ashy. Wing 7-7*3 inches. 



Young female. Similar to the young male, but much smaller, and 

 often more cinnamon-rufous in tint, the head and upper parts being 

 also more rufous. These rich tints, however, soon fade, and then 

 there is no difference between the young male and the young 

 female, except that of size. Wing 5*9-6 - 2 inches. 



The summer plumage of the adult female is gained by a moult, 

 which includes the quills and tail-feathers. Some of the inner 

 secondaries appear to me to undergo a change of pattern in the 

 feathers, and some of the body-feathers appear to change also by 

 becoming gradually darker, instead of moulting. This darkening of 

 the feathers on the back results in the whole of the plumage of the 

 upper parts becoming black, often with a strong gloss of purple, 

 the feathers fringed with sandy buff, and the inner secondaries 

 chequered with rufous and black, while the tail-feathers are also 

 barred with rufous towards their ends ; the fore-neck and chest, as 

 well as the sides of the body, are mottled with purplish-black centres 

 to the feathers. Total length 8 inches, wing 5-8. 



Hah. Central Europe and Asia, not extending very far north, but 

 wintering in Africa, India, and extending rarely to Japan and 

 Borneo. Accidental in Eastern North America as far as Barbados 

 and Dutch Guiana. 



Gen. Hardwicke [P.]. 

 Old Coll. 



a, b. $ ad. sk. 



c. c? ad. sestiv. 

 sk. 



d. $ juv. sk. 



e. (5 juv. st. 

 f, ff . d2 ad. 



hiem. sk. 

 h-n. S sestiv. ; 



o. $ a5stiv.sk. 

 p. $ ad. hiem. 



sk. 

 q-t. S ad. sk. 

 ii, v. <5 ad. sk. 



w, x. 3 2 ad. 

 hiem. sk. 



Great Britain. 

 Great Britain. 



Aberdeen, N.B. (£. O. W. 22.). 



Sutherland, Sept. 8. 

 Lincolnshire. 



Lincolnshire. 



Lincolnshire. 



Cambridgeshire. 



Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire 



(O.S.& F. D. G.). 

 Aldeburgh, Suffolk, Aug. 30. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 C.E.Flower,Esq.[P.]. 



Montagu Coll. 



Old Coll. 



Old Coll. 



Purchased. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Colonel Irby [P.]. 



