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brown ; wings brownish black, paler on the inner coverts and 

 secondaries ; remainder of the plumage white, the upper 

 tail-coverts barred with dusky ; tail, the centre feathers 

 shaded with ashy, and the whole partially barred with 

 dusky ; legs green ; beak dusky olive ; irides dark brown. 



Entire length 13'5 inches ; culmen 2-2 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 7-5 ; tarsus 2-3. 



Fig. Sharpe and Dresser, B. of Eur. part v. 



262. ToTANUS STAGNATiLis, Bcchst. Marsh-SancJj)Jj)er. 



The Marsh-Sandpiper ranges throughout Egypt and Nubia, 

 but is not very plentiful on the Nile above Cairo, where we 

 generally met with it singly or in company with the Wood- 

 Sandpiper. In Lower Egypt and the Eayoom it is far more 

 numerous, and in these districts I may have seen as many as 

 a hundred in one day. It is by no means shy, and comes 

 readily when its whistle is imitated, the cry consisting of one 

 note, which is easily acquired. It is active and graceful in its 

 movements ; and when it sees an intruder it will generally 

 stand motionless in the water, apparently hoping to pass 

 unobserved. 



Winter plumage. — Upper parts ashy grey, inclining to 

 white on the forehead ; many of the feathers streaked in the 

 centre with dark brown ; lower part of the back and rump 

 pure white ; tail and tail-coverts white, barred with dark 

 bro^\Ti ; primaries dusky ; underparts white ; sides of the 

 neck and flanks sparingly marked with narrow brown streaks. 



Summer plumage — The top of the head and back becomes 

 browner, ami the upper plumage is generally strongly marked 



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