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well as the sides of the hody and flanks, are also barred with dusky 

 blackish, with a few bars on the under tail-coverts. 'Bill brown; feet 

 yellow-oeher : iris dark brown.' (//. }Yhitely.) Length, 241; culmen. 

 38; wing, loo; tail, 66; tarsus, 29. 



"Adult female in breeding plumage. — Does not differ from the male. 

 Length, 241; culmen, 38; wing, 152; tail, 66: tarsus, 30." (Sharpe.) 



This tattler occurs in great numbers during migration and may be 

 found feeding on tide-flats. 



Genus ACTITIS Illiger, 1811. 



Bill straight; culmen, tarsus, and middle toe with claw subequal; back 

 and rump uniform in color; secondaries nearly as long as primaries. 



108. ACTITIS HYPOLEUCOS (Linnjpus). 



COMMON SANDPIPER. 



Tritiga hypoleiicos Linn.eus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 140. 



Trinc/oides hi/poleucvs Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 24, 4.5fi; 



Hand-List (1899), 1, 161; Gates. Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 45. 

 Actitis hypoleitcus McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (190G), 26. 



Agutaya (McGregor); Balabae (Everett) ; Bantayan (McGregor); Basilan 

 (Uteere Exp.) ; Batan (McGregor) ; Bohol (Everett); Cagayancilio (McGregor) ; 

 Cagayan Suhi (GuiUemard, McGregor) ; Calamianes (Bourns tt- M'orcester) ; Ca- 

 layan (McGregor) ; Camigviin S. (Murray) ; Cebu (Everett, Bourns tC- Worcester, 

 McGregor) ; Cuyo (McGregor) ; Giiimaras (Steere Exp., Bourns rf Worcester) ; 

 Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Jagor, Everett, Bourns <£• Worcester, Whitehead, 

 McGregor); Masbate (Bourns d- Worcester); Mindanao (Murray, Everett); 

 Mindoro (tSchmacker, McGregor, Porter) ; Negros (Steere Exp., Bourns d- Wor- 

 cester) ; Palawan (Everett, Platen, Whitehead, Steere Exp., Bourns d- Worcester, 

 White) ; Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns d- Worcester) ; Samar (Bourns d Wo7-cester) ; 

 Sibay (McGregor d- Worcester) ; Siqnijor (Celestino) ; Ticao (McGregor) ; Verde 

 (McGregor) . Africa. Europe, and northern Asia; ,so\itb in winter from Indian 

 Peninsula to Australia. 



"Adult male in hreeding phniiage. — Al)0vc Ijtouzv l)r()wn. the feathers 

 with arrow-shaped central markings of l)]ack, which take tlic form of baiTS 

 on scapulars and inner secondaries, wing-coverts bronzy brown like the 

 back, but regularly barred with blackish : median and greater coverts with 

 ashy fringes, the latter rather bi'oadly tipfx'd with white; alula, ])rimary- 

 coverts, and quills brown with an olive gloss; secondaries tipped with 

 white and liaving a broad wliite base; inner secondaries like the back; 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts like the back : lateral coverts 

 barred witli l)lackish and with white on outer web; tail-featiiers bronzy 

 brown, with irregular cross-bars of blackish brown; middle feathers 

 narrowly, outer feathers broadly, tipped with white, penultimate feather 

 barred with wliite on outer web, outermost feather almost entirely white 

 with a little brown on inner web, which is barred with blackish; crown 

 and neck ])Von7.v brown, with narrow niesial shaft-lines of blackish brown, 



