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Winter Plumage. — Bill curved downwards. Head, on the crown and sides, 

 back of the neck and nape light greyish brown, streaked with darker brown 

 and dusky black, with an olivaceous gloss ; face and supercilia white, and a 

 dark streak from the gape to the eye ; sides of the neck and in front greyish, 

 streaked with brown; breast the same; abdomen and upper and lower tail 

 coverts white ; back, scapulars and wing coverts ashy brown, the shafts 

 darker ; tail ashy grey, edged with white ; primaries dusky brown, also the 

 secondaries, which are tipped with white ; axillaries white ; lesser coverts 

 grey, the shafts darker. Bill black ; irides brown ; legs dusky grey. 



Length.—^ to lO inches ; wing S; tail 1 75 ; bill at front i'6. In summer 

 plumage the forehead is whitish, mixed with pale reddish brown ; supercilia 

 pale yellowish white ; chin white ; head, neck and nape ferruginous with dark 

 margins ; throat, breast and upper abdomen chestnut ; in a specimen obtained 

 on 20th May the feathers are all narrowly edged with white ; back, scapulars 

 and tertiaries black ; also the lesser coverts, the feathers edged with 

 chestnut. 



i7fl5.— India generally, and Ceylon, also Beloochistan, Persia and Afghan- 

 istan. Recorded from Cashmere and Egypt, also from Australia and Java. 

 Common also in the low tidal portions of the plains between the Pegu and 

 Sittano- rivers and in the Irrawady delta. Recorded also from Arracan and 

 the Tenasserim Coast. Found commonly along the Sind and Mekran Coasts 

 and on the large dhunds, not far inland. It occurs in Kutch and Kattiawar 

 and on the Bombay Coast in some numbers, also in the Kurrachee harbour. 



164. Tringa CincluS, Linn., \Syst Nat. p. 246 ; Bodd., Tab. PI. 

 Enl. 852; Gould, B. Eur. pi. 329; >''^-. ^- ^«'^- i"- ^90 ; "S^/r. F. i. p. 

 242 ; Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 86, pi. ; Murray, Hdhk., Zool, ^-c, Sind, p. 220 ; 

 id., Vert. Zool. Sind, p- 247 ; Murray, Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 615, No. 1295. 

 Tringa alpina, Z.— The Dunlin. 



Crown of the head, lores and cheeks ashy brown ; a pale white supercilium 

 from the base of the bill over each eye ; back and scapulars pale ashy brown, 

 the feathers dark shafted and edged paler ; lesser and median coverts brown, 

 edo-ed paler, tipped with whitish ; throat, breast, belly, vent and under tail 

 coverts pure white, the breast with a few brown streaks ; tail with the two 

 central feathers dusky or deep brown, the rest ashy and edged whitish. 



Length.— 6-^ to 7-5 inches ; wing 4'S ;tail 1-87 ; bill at front 1-25, black ; 

 legs greenish dusky ; irides brown. 



Hah —Sind, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, Oudh, Bengal, Guzerat, Kutch and 

 Kattiawar Coast. A winter visitant, arriving about the middle of September. 

 In the Kurrachee harbour the Dunlin is simply numerous, also on the INIekran 

 Coast, where they may be seen running nimbly near the edges of the sea or 

 skimming along near the surface in fairly large flocks. 



