420 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
The winter plumage is as follows:—The beak is 
nearly black; the irides dark brown; the space 
between the beak and the eye darkish,—over this 
and over the eye a streak of white; the top of the 
head darkish ash-grey, each feather margined with 
white; the back of the neck ash-grey, slightly 
streaked with white ; the back, scapulars and tertials 
darkish ash-grey, each feather narrowly margined 
with white; wing-coverts paler ash-grey, with 
broader white margins; primary quills dusky, almost 
black, with white shafts; rump and_tail-coverts 
white (in this it differs from the Purre or Dunlin); 
tail-feathers ash-grey, margined with white; chin 
white ; throat white in front, streaked on the sides 
with ash-grey; the breast is pale ash-grey; the 
rest of the under parts white, the thigh only 
feathered about half-way down; the legs and toes 
greenish brown; the claws black. 
The change from this to the summer plumage is 
something like that of the Bartailed Godwit before 
mentioned. “I'he head and neck all round” then 
become “reddish chesnut, shghtly varied with small 
streaks of black and white; the back, scapulars, 
small wing-coverts and tertials nearly black, each 
feather edged with reddish chesnut; the greater 
wing-coverts ash-brown, edged with greyish white ; 
primary and secondary quill-feathers nearly black, 
with white shafts; breast and belly reddish chesnut, 
indistinctly barred transversely with lines of black; 
