CURLEW-SANDPIPER 305 
the Atlantic-facing sides of Scotland and Ireland, though 
along the American coast they are far from common. The 
fly-lines become very extensive as the cold season advances, 
for in winter this bird is found in South America, South 
Africa, India, and other parts of Southern Asia, also in such 
remote lands as Australia and Tasmania. On the return 
passage northward in spring the Curlew - Sandpiper is 
common in many countries of Kurope and Asia. 
DESCRIPTIVE CHARACTERS. 
PLUMAGE. Adult male nuptial— Head, neck, back, and 
greater portion of wings, blackish, with variegated markings 
of chestnut and grey; wing-coverts, chiefly greyish-brown ; 
primaries and tail, ash-grey; upper tail-coverts, whitish, 
shaded with heht buff and barred with black ; throat, sides 
and front of neck, breast and abdomen, rich chestnut, thinly 
striped with brown about the abdomen and flanks. 
Adult female nuptial.—Similar to the male plumage, 
but duller in shade. 
Adult male and female.—The front of the neck, breast, 
and abdomen are white, and the chestnut shading of the 
nuptial plumage disappears from the back and wines, which 
in winter are greyish-brown. 
Immature, male and female.—Top of head, hind-neck, 
back, scapulars, wings, and tail, dusky greyish-brown, with 
very pale buff edgings ; upper tail-coverts form a noticeable 
white patch; cheeks, sides and front of neck, and upper 
breast, greyish-buff, finely streaked with dull brown ; throat, 
lower breast, abdomen, under tail-coverts, and flanks, white : 
over the eye is an ill-defined white stripe. 
Beak. Blackish ; shghtly decurved near the point. 
Freer. Dark brownish-black. 
Iripes. Blackish-brown. 
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