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with white ; part of the inner web of all primaries, except the 
first, white ; secondaries white with a broad outer dusky band, 
which gradually disappears on the inner feathers. Outer 
tail feathers barred brown and white. There is an indistinct 
white eyebrow ; the cheeks and sides of the neck and breast 
are streaked grayish-brown ; lower parts whitish with some 
darker shaft-streaks on the foreneck. 
In summer the upper parts lose the olive tinge and become 
darker with bolder shaft-stripes and crossbars. The foreneck 
and breast are more distinctly streaked with brown. 
Bill deep brown above, tinged with yellow at the base ; 
iris brown ; legs grayish-green. 
Length 8; wing 4°25; tail 2°25; tarsus -95; bill from 
gape 1-1. 
Distribution —Common throughout the low-country during 
the north-east monsoon, occasionally found as high up as 
Nuwara Eliya. 
Common throughout India in the winter, but less abundant 
in Northern India than 7’. ochropus ; breeds in the temperate 
regions of the Old World, migrating in the winter as far as 
South Africa, Southern Asia, and Australia. 
Habits —Usually solitary or found in pairs, and fonder of 
the seashore, the gravelly borders of tanks, and the sides of 
streams than of paddy fields and swamps. One of our earliest 
migrants, many birds arriving during August. It often 
perches on fences or low boughs near the water. 
TOTANUS GLAREOLA (Blanford, Vol. IV., p. 261 ; 
Legge, p. 857). 
The Wood Sandpiper. 
(Plate IT., fig. 10.) 
Description.—Winter : Upper parts bronze-brown ; the 
crown and hind neck with faint paler edges to the feathers ; 
a whitish streak from the bill to above the eye. On the back, 
scapulars, wing coverts, rump, and tertiaries the feathers have 
more pronounced white edges and spottings of white and 
deep brown. The upper tail coverts are white, the middle tail 
feathers light brown barred with dark brown ; the remainder 
