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with well-defined black shaft-streaks, the other parts with narrower and 
less distinct shaft-streaks ; wing-coverts blackish, the median and greater 
coverts broadly edged with white; primaries dark brown, blacker on the 
tips and outer webs, the shafts white, a portion of the outer webs of the 
later ones white; secondaries black, whitish at base and tipped with 
white; tertiaries rather broadly edged with white; tail pale brown on the 
outer webs, more or less white on the inner. ‘Iris dark brown; bill, legs, 
’ feet, and claws black... (Armstrong.) Length, 190; tail, 51; wing, 122; 
tarsus, 25; bill from gape, 28.” (Oates.) 
“Male in summer plumage.—Differs from the winter plumage in being 
mottled and not uniform, the upper surface being cinnamon-rufous, 
mottled with black centers to the feathers, which have hoary whitish or 
ashy edges; the inner secondaries cinnamon-rufous like the secapulars and 
back; sides of lower back and lateral upper tail-coverts pure white; sides 
of face, throat, and sides of pineast deep cinnamon-rufous, mottled with 
black centers to the feathers ; rest of under surface white. Length, 165; 
culmen, 23; wing, 124; tail, #8, 1s, 23; middle toe with claw, 19. 
“Female in summer ‘a nilar to the male but has not quite 
so much bright rufous in e, the fore neck being barred with 
blackish. Length, 203; -culine 27; wing, 124; tail, 49; tarsus, 25; 
middle toe with claw, 20, a, ‘ie 
“Young. —Somewhat similar to the winter plumage of the adult but 
not so uniform above ; entire: under surface pure white, as also the fore- 
head and sides of face ; center of forehead mottled with blackish to base 
of bill; a dusk A y streak between bill and eye, as well as s along upper nee 
or vinous ; 
upper surface | 
spots being 
upper 
black, i at the ee with a narrow blackish ee giving the rump 
heii Giitlea with spots of white or sandy whitish, tise 
if terminal on back and scapulars ; lower back, rump, and 
3 n ottled like the back.” ( Sharpe.) 
faken near Manila in March measures: Wing, 118; tail, 52; 
Imen, 24; tarsus, 25; middle toe with claw, 19. 
Genus PISOBIA Billberg, 1828. 
ler and straight, a little longer than tarsus; hind toe small and 
sandpipers about 127 mm. in length. 
