BARTRAM’S SANDPIPER. 89 
one foot and half an inch; bill, slender, and slightly curved 
towards the tip, the upper mandible deep brown, the lower 
one light brown, dark at the point. Head on the sides and 
crown, brown, the feathers edged with buff, the latter colour 
shewing more on the sides;-neck on the back, brownish buff, 
minutely spotted with dark brown; chin, white; throat, buff 
white, the dark centres of the feathers forming lines of spots; 
breast, buff white, with dark brown arrow-head shaped markings 
near the tip of each feather, growing paler below till it ends 
in white. Back dark olive brown, each feather edged with 
buit. 
The wings reach in expanse to the width of two feet, or 
a trifle over; greater and lesser wing coverts, dark clive brown, 
each feather edged with buff; primaries, brownish lead-colour, 
the broad web towards the quill white, banded and marked 
with blackish brown, the shaft of the first primary only white, 
the rest black, the tips minutely edged with buff; tertiaries, 
brownish lead-colour edged with buff, each feather marked 
with bands of dark brown, ending in black spots near the 
buff border, and with a black patch at the tip minutely edged 
with buff. The tail is wedge-shaped, the shafts of the feathers 
are black, the webs grey brown, shading off into a whitish 
buff border, with a row of black spots all round; the feathers 
on each side bright fawn-colour, the shafts and edges paler, 
with a similar row of black spots, the last feather outside 
white barred with black; all the tail feathers, except the two 
outer ones, have a large black patch at the tip, with the 
remainder about it white; under tail coverts, white. The 
legs are bare of feathers some way above the knee joimt. 
