SCHINZ’S SANDPIPER. 53 
Male; length, six inches and a half to seven and a little 
over, according to different measurements; bill, nearly black; 
iris, brown; over it is a white streak, less pure in winter; 
forehead in summer, white; head on the sides, greyish white 
speckled on the centres on the feathers with dusky black; on 
the crown in summer, with the feathers marked on their 2s 
with black, and on he edges with rufous, and in winter as 
are the neck on the back and nape, grey brown streaked with 
dusky; neck on the sides, greyish white, speckled with dusky 
black, the dark marks being along the shafts. Chin, white; 
throat in summer, white, in winter as is the breast on the 
upper part, greyish white speckled with dusky, in summer with 
deep black across it, the edges of the feathers tinged with grey, 
on the lower part white. The back with black on the centres 
of the feathers and with rufous edges, in winter grey brown 
in place of rufous. 
The wings have the first quill the longest; the axillary plume 
white. Greater and lesser wing coverts, black on the centres 
of the feathers, with rufous edges in summer, in winter grey 
brown edged with greyish white; primaries, brownish grey or 
dusky black, the latter towards the tips, the inner ones more 
or less edged and tipped with white, the shafts white; secon- 
daries, dusky brown minutely tipped with white, and edged 
with the same; tertiaries, long, dusky brown, margined in 
summer with rufous, and in winter with ash grey; the quill 
feathers underneath are ash-colour with white shafts. The tail 
has the two middle feathers longer than the others and pointed, 
and deep or blackish brown in colour, the- others ash brown; 
upper and under tail coverts, white. The legs, which are 
without feathers for a considerable space above the knee, are, 
as the toes, black, tinged with green; claws, black. 
In the young at first the plumage is a mixture of grey, 
black, and rufous, subsequently the bill is nearly black, the 
base pale yellowish red; the upper parts are rufous with black 
centres to the feathers, and white tips; the breast, pale brown 
or dingy white with large dusky spots. 
While passing from the winter to the summer plumage, 
and back again from the latter to the former, what may be 
called a ‘neutral tint’ prevails, while now the one and ‘then 
the other in turn is assuming the prevalence. 
