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front and sides of neck and pectoral band black ; mantle, 

 scapulars, and wing coverts black, streaked and mottled with 

 cliestnut ; legs and feet orange red. 



Young birds are duller in colour, and the upper parts are 

 marked with dull yellowish edges to the feathers. The black is 

 replaced by dull brownish black, and the white on the head 

 by huffish white. 



380. Broad-billed Sandpiper. Limicola platyrhyncha (Tem- 

 minck). 



Not mentioned by Shelley. 



In October 1917 I found this species abundant near some 

 small ponds at Bughaz, Rosetta, and obtained specimens of both 

 adult and young. It is probably a regular visitor during the 

 autumn migration and possibly in spring also. 



Length about 6 inches. In winter plumage the sexes, 

 which are similar, have the upper parts pale ash grey ; a clearly 

 defined white line over the eye ; under parts white streaked 

 with dusky brown on the throat ; the bill is broad at the base 

 and slightly decurved at the tip. 



In summer plumage the upper parts are very dark blackish 

 brown, variegated with white and rufous ; throat and breast 

 white tinged w^ith rufous and spotted like the flanks with dark 

 brown ; rest of under parts white. 



In its appearance this sandpiper, while in life, reminds one 

 very strongly of a small jack snipe, but is much greyer in winter 

 plumage. 



381. Dunlin. Tringa alpina Linnaeus. 



Tringa cinclus. Shelley, p. 253. 



Common on the coast and on the lakes in Northern Egypt, 

 in the autumn ; a fair number remain throughout the winter. 

 Less abundant during the spring migration. 



Length about 6 inches. In winter the upper parts are ash 

 grey ; rump blackish ; under parts pure white speckled with 

 ashy brown on throat and upper breast. 



In summer plumage the upper parts are black variegated 

 with red and white ; a large black patch on lower breast. 

 Young birds somewhat resemble adults in summer plumage, 

 but the colours are never so pure and the lower breast is only 

 mottled with brownish black ; bill long — about 1^ inches — and 

 slightly decurved. 



