294 CHARADRIIDAL 
admixture of indistinct fine white streaks; abdomen, flanks, 
and under tail-coverts, white, with a few dark streaks. In 
late summer, before moulting into winter-dress, much of 
the buff disappears from the back and wings; in fact, I 
have in my collection, specimens with the back nearly as 
black as the breast. 
Adult female nuptial—Similar to the male plumage, 
except that the black on the breast is sometimes less 
developed. 
Adult winter, male and female.—'Top of head, face 
(excepting a dull white stripe over the eye), hind-neck, back, 
scapulars, and wings, chiefly ash-grey ; wings crossed by a 
narrow white bar; primaries, dark brown; chin, breast, 
and abdomen, pure white; front of neck, ash-grey, with 
darker streaks. 
Immature, male and female.— Feathers of the back, 
scapulars, and wings, resemble those of the adult nuptial 
plumage, except that the buff edgings are lighter, thinner, 
and duller in colour; cheeks, tawny-brown; breast and 
neck, tawny-brown, with darker streaks; the white of the 
abdomen and flanks, interspersed with brownish spots. 
Beak. Black, and varying considerably in length ; the 
longer beaks show a tendency to a slight downward curve 
like that of the Curlew-Sandpiper, whereas the shorter 
beaks are straighter, like that of the Little Stint (Plate 
XXIV., fig. 1, and Plate XXVII., fig. 2). 
Freer. Black. 
IripEs. Blackish-brown. 
AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 
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(Extremes, from 0'9 in. to 1°5 in.). 
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