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dusky, tLe feathers edged with white or greyish white spots ; asillaries 

 white with transverse obh'que dusky brown spots; primaries^ secondaries 

 and their coverts dusky brown^ the shaft of the first quill and the tips of 

 the Later inner ones white ; the greater wing-coverts margined and tipped 

 with white ; rump, upper and lower tail-coverts and abdomen white; 

 tail, with the central feathers longest and bai-red with black and white 

 alternately, the barrings oblique, the rest less broadly barred and 

 decreasing on the outer ones to dusky markings on the outer webs 

 only; legs pale olive green; irides deep brown. 



Length,. — 8'5 to 9 inches, wing 5, tail 2, bill at front 1*2, tarsus I'o. 



Hah, — Common nearly throughout India, also in Beloochistan, 

 Persian Gulf, and Afghanistan during winter. 



Actitis ochropus, Linn.; p. E. 843; Gould. B. Eur. pi. 315, 1 ; 

 Jerd. B. Lid. iii. 698; Murray, Edlk., Zool., §-0., Sind, p. 221. — The 

 Geeen Sand-Pipee. 



In winter plumage the forehead, crown, nape and back of the neck 

 are deep or dusky brown, the feathers streaked with white; a dark 

 streak from the base of the bill to the eye, and a white one above it ; 

 chin and throat white ; back and scapulars olive brown or brown 

 glossed with greenish, each feather edged with small roundish spots, 

 the spots on the scapulars distinctly margined behind with deep brown ; 

 primaries and their coverts and secondaries deep brown, none of them 

 white shafted; wing-coverts dusky brown; axillarics duslcy or dark 

 brown, xvith narroio oblique white bars ; abdomen, vent and upper and 

 under tail-coverts white; tail white, broadly barred with deep brown, the 

 middle feathers having four bars, and those next to them decreasing in 

 number, the outer feathers on each side being pure white with some- 

 times a dusky subterminal spot on the outer web ; legs and feet green- 

 ish grey ; bill black ; irides iDrown. 



Length. — 9'5 to 10 inches, wing 5-5 to 6, tail 3, bill 1*37, tarsus 

 nearly 1'5- 



Hah. — Throughout India, Beloochistan, Persia and Afghanistan, fre- 

 quenting the banks of rivers, edges of lakes and largo sheets of water ; 

 a winter visitant, seldom seen along the sea coast. 



Actitis hypoleucus, Lin. ; P. E. 850; Goidd. B. Eur. pi. 31S; 

 Jerd. iii. p. 699; Str. F. ii, p. 299; Murray, Hdhh., Zool., ^x., Sind, 

 p. 220. — The Common Sand-Piper. 



Forehead, crown, nape and back of the head asliy brown, streaked 

 with dark narrow lines; supercilium white, also the orbital ring, cliiu 

 and throat; sides of the face pale ashy with brown streaks; middle 

 o£ the bx'east white, the sides mottled or streaked with brown, or 

 entirely brown; back, scapulars, tertiaries and lesser wing-coverts ashy 

 brown, glossed with green, and with fine ti-ansverse dark lines ; greater 

 wing-coverts ashy brown, tipped with white, which with the white 

 bases of the secondaries form a conspicuous wing band ; primaries and 

 their coverts dark brown, the latter tipped with white, and all, except 

 the first primary, and sometimes the second also, with a large whito 

 spot on their inner webs; lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts 



