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once into the sand, thus scratching a hole about three 
inches deep and an inch and a half across. 
“ Specific Character.—Bill black ; feet orange ; the 
head and sides of the neck streaked and patched 
with black and white; fore part of the neck and 
upper portion of the sides of the breast, black; low- 
er parts, hind part of the back, and upper tail-cov- 
erts white; rump dusky; rest of the upper parts 
reddish-brown, mottled with black ; primaries dusky ; 
a band across the wings and the throat white. 
Young with the head and neck all round, fore part 
of the back, and sides of the breast, dusky brown, 
streaked and margined with greyish-white; wing- 
coverts and tertials broadly margined with dull red- 
dish-brown. It can at all times be identified by its 
having the throat, lower parts, hind part of the back, 
and the upper tail-coverts white, and the feathers 
on the rump dusky. Adult with the bill black, 
throat white, sides of the head mottled with black 
and white; crown streaked with black on white 
ground; on the hind neck a patch of white ; a patch 
of black on the sides of the neck, of which color are 
the fore-neck and the sides of the breast; lower 
parts white; tail blackish-brown, white at the base, 
of which color are the lateral feathers, with a spot 
of black on the inner vanes near the end—the rest 
margined with reddish-brown, and tipped with 
white ; upper tail-coverts white; hind part of the 
back white ; the feathers on the rump black; fore 
part of the back mottled with black and reddish- 
brown; primaries dark brown, inner webs white ; 
