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and ring round eyes black; legs clear gray; tarsus tinged with yellowish, 
toes with blackish, and soles with ¥eddish ; iris dark brown.’ (Stejneger.) 
“The exact method by which the rufous chest of the summer plumage 
is gained is not easy to discover. In some specimens in winter dress 
there is a distinct narrow line of brown across the fore neck; in most of 
the series of skins in the Museum this is wanting, as it is also in young 
birds. It may therefore be a sign of very old birds only, as there are 
traces of brown feathers in an old bird which has not quite attained its 
full summer plumage. In the specimen in question it is also evident that 
the rufous breast is being acquired by a change of color in the feather, 
from brown to rufous, as well as by a molt. Probably only very old birds 
go through this double process, as in the majority of specimens the 
rufous’ breast appears to be gained by a molt only. When first devel- 
oped all the rufous feathers are edged with white. 
“A young bird is described by Dr. Stejneger as somewhat resembling 
the adult: ‘The brownish gray of the back is paler, and each feather 
narrowly edged with isabella-color, with which also the lower parts are 
suffused. On the pectoral region a buffish tinge replaces the rufous collar, 
and the black markings are absent from the head, the cheeks and ear- 
coverts being slightly dusky; the forehead between the bill and the eyes 
whitish, suffused with isabella-color.’ 
“The winter plumage and young livery of the western and eastern 
forms of O. mongolus are, as might have been expected, very difficult to 
distinguish, but the western form seems always to have a longer tarsus 
(about 32 mm.), whereas the eastern form has the tarsus about 28 mm.” 
(Sharpe.) 
94. OCHTHODROMUS VEREDUS (Gould). 
EASTERN DOTTEREL. 
Charadrius veredus GOULD, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1848), 38. 
Ochthodromus veredus SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 232; 
Hand-List (1899), 1, 153; McGreeor and Worcester, Hand-List 
(1906), 23. 
Palawan (Platen, Bourns & Worcester, White). Mongolia and China, in winter 
to the Moluccas and Australia. 
“Adult in summer plumage.—Similar to O. geoffroyi, but with a longer 
and more slender bill, and distinguished by its smoky brown axillars, 
under wing-coverts, and quill-linings. Upper parts uniform brown, with 
slightly indicated rufous edgings to many of the feathers; alula, primary- 
coverts, and quills dark brown, first primary only having a white shaft, 
and no white present on inner webs of quills; secondaries uniform dark 
brown, with an obsolete white fringe to the tips; innermost secondaries 
like back; tail-feathers brown, with white tips and a subterminal shade 
of darker brown, outer feather white along outer web; crown brown like 
back, slightly washed with rufous, as also the hind neck, where, however, 
