SHORE BIRDS OF NOVA SCOTIA — GILPIN. 381 
pale greenish-yellow. General colour, head, neck, back and coverts 
dark sepia, the edges of each feather margined with a lighter or 
rufus brown, The rump sooty-black, reaching to end of closed 
tail, which is margined with rufus. Primaries, secondaries and 
tertiaries blackish, edges light, which, with white shafts, gives 
the appearance of a faint white line dewn each feather, Wing 
coverts edged with white; faint dark line from mouth through 
the eye; a broad faintish-brown collar about the breast ; beneath, 
to end of tail, white; bill blackish. 
Anether shot 20th September, 1880, at Dighy, gives— 
Length, 6} inches. 
Length of bill, ? inch. 
Of tarsus, ? inch. 
Wings spread, 11} inches. 
Colour: forehead, neck, back of neck, shoulders black, more or 
less, but each feather with an edging of light ferruginous, on 
neck and head less, but greater upon shoulders, wing coverts and 
tertiaries, the whole effect being black spots with a decided fer- 
ruginous wash. The rump and middle tail feathers black, a 
little white showing en either side of rump; the edging of tail 
feathers ferruginous, the side tail feathers lighter than middle 
ones. Chin, and obscurely above eye, whitish, a very obscure 
dusky line from bill to eye; neck to breast grey, pencilled black, 
forming distinct colour. Below white to vent. The outside shaft 
in the first primaries white. 
A Sand Peep shot at same time, 20th September, 1881, mea- 
sured :— 
Length, 8} inches. 
Length of tarsus, 15-16 inch, 
Length of bill, 1 inch. 
Stretch of wing, 164 inches. 
Though the greater size showed directly a different species, 
yet I could find no difference in colour betwixt these than that 
the wing coverts above the secondaries in the smaller were more 
broadly edged with white. The bills in both were alike and 
black nostrils basal, upper mandible with a sulcus running half 
way te tip. Legs and feet in beth dark brownish, four-toed and 
