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a narrow superciliary line of whitish, extending from base of bill ; sides of 

 face bronzy brown, with blackish shaft-lines to the feathers; fore part of 

 cheeks and under surface pure white, with dusky streaks on the throat, 

 these being a little longer on chest, the sides of latter and sides of upper 

 breast brown; under wing-coverts white, mottled with blackish bases, 

 especially distinct on edge of wing; axillars pure white; quills dusky 

 below, white toward base of inner web. 'Bill dusky above, brownish gray 

 beneath ; feet grayish, tinged with green, claws black; iris brown.' (Mac- 

 gillivray.) Length, 203; culmen, 'i^\ wing, 104; tail, 51; tarsus, 24. 



"Adult female in breeding pJuiiiage. — Similar to the male in color, but 

 not quite so heavily marked, and the streaks on the fore neck and chest 

 less pronounced. Length, 178 ; culmen, 28 ; wing, 109 ; tail, 61 ; tarsus, 22. 



"Adult iu winter plumage. — A little more bronzy olive than in summer, 

 and uniform above, without the black central streaks and black spear- 

 shaped spots which are characteristic of the summer dress ; the streaks on 

 the throat are also much narrower and not so distinct. 



"Young. — Easily distinguished by the cross-bars of sandy or reddisli 

 buff and dusky brown, which give the upper surface a freckled appearance; 

 throat uniform, with scarcely any indications of streaks on the lower 

 part." (Sharpe.) 



The common sandpiper is widely distributed and is often found along 

 fresh-water streams as well as near the sea. 



Genus TEREKLl Bonaparte, 1838. 



Bill curved upward ; tarsus longer than middle toe with claw and less 

 than two-thirds of culmen ; wings long, when folded extending to or 

 beyond tiie end of tail. 



109. TEREKIA CINEREA ((iiildenstiidt ). 

 AVOCET SANDPIPER. 



Scolopax cincrea Uuldexstadt. Novi Comm. Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop. ( 1775), 



19, 473, pi. 19. 

 TvrcLia cinerca Shakpk, Cat. Birds Brit. Mas. (189(tj, 24, 474: Hand- List 



(1899), 1, Kil; Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 47; McGkegor and 



WoKCKiSTER, Hand-List (1900), 20. 



Bohol (Everett); CVhu { Medrefjor) -. Mashato (Bourns d- Worcester); Xegros 

 (Steere Exp., Bourns d- Worce.^ter) ; Palawan (Whitehedf}) . Northern Siberia, 

 northeastern Europe; in winter Africa and Indian Peninsula to Australia. 



"Adult untie in breeding jiliniKige. — Diifers from the winter plumage 

 in having black centers to feathers of upi)ei' surface; head streaked witii 

 l)lackish brown; a rufescent tint pervades the upper surface; lesser wing- 

 coverts and scapulars almost entirely black, the latter forming a double 

 band down the back ; wing-coverts, secondaries, lower back, rump, and 

 npi)er tail-coverts, mottled with dusky markings; below white; lower 

 throat and fore neck streaked with I)lackish. 'Bill black, base of lower 



