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well as the sides of the body and flanks, are also barred with dusky 
blackish, with a few bars on thunder tail-coverts. ‘Bill brown; feet 
yellow-ocher; iris dark brown. (H. Whitely.) Length, 241; culmen, 
38; wing, 155; tail, 66; tarsus, 29. 
“Adult female in breeding plumage.—Does not differ from the male. 
Length, 241; culmen, 38; wing, 152; tail, 66; tarsus, 30.” (Sharpe.) 
This tattler occurs in great numbers during migration and may be 
found feeding on tide-flats. 
Genus ACTITIS Illiger, 1811. 
Bill straight; culmen, tarsus, and middle toe with claw subequal ; back 
and rump uniform in color; secondaries nearly as long as primaries. 
108. ACTITIS HYPOLEUCOS (Linneus). 
COMMON SANDPIPER. 
Tringa hypoleucos LINNXUS, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 149. 
Tringoides hypoleucus SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 456; 
Hand-List (1899), 1, 161; OarTeEs, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 45. 
Actitis hypoleucus MCGREGOR and WoRCcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 26. 
Agutaya (McGregor); Balabac (Hverett); Bantayan (McGregor); Basilan 
(Steere Exp.) ; Batan (McGregor) ; Bohol (Everett) ; Cagayancillo (McGregor) ; 
Cagayan Sulu (@Gwillemard, McGregor); Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester) ; Ca- 
layan (McGregor) ; Camiguin S. (Murray); Cebu (Everett, Bourns & Worcester, 
McGregor) ; Cuyo (McGregor); Guimaras (Steere Hap., Bourns & Worcester) ; 
Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Jagor, Everett, Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, 
McGregor); Masbate (Bourns & Worcester); Mindanao (Murray, Everett) ; 
Mindoro (Schmacker, McGregor, Porter); Negros (Steere Exp., Bourns & Wor- 
cester) ; Palawan (Everett, Platen, Whitehead, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, 
White) ; Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; Samar (Bourns & Worcester) ; 
Sibay (McGregor & Worcester) ; Siquijor (Celestino) ; Ticao (McGregor); Verde 
(McGregor). Africa, Europe, and northern Asia; south in winter from Indian 
Peninsula to Australia. 
“Adult male in breeding plumage.—Above bronzy brown, the feathers 
with arrow-shaped central markings of black, which take the form of bars 
on scapulars and inner secondaries, wing-coverts bronzy -brown like the 
back, but regularly barred with blackish ; median and greater coverts with 
ashy fringes, the latter rather broadly tipped with white; alula, primary- 
coverts, and quills brown with an olive gloss; secondaries tipped with 
white and having a broad white base; inner secondaries like the back; 
lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts like the back; lateral coverts 
barred with blackish and with white on outer web; tail-feathers bronzy 
brown, with irregular cross-bars of blackish brown; middle feathers 
narrowly, outer feathers broadly, tipped with white, penultimate feather 
barred with white on outer web, outermost feather almost entirely white 
with a little brown on inner web, which is barred with blackish; crown 
and neck bronzy brown, with narrow mesial shaft-lines of blackish brown, 
