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CHARADRIID^. 



dible a brown streak passes below the light-coloured one to the 

 ends of the ear-coverts ; the feathers of the back, wing- 

 coverts, tertials, and npper tail-coverts, pale brown, each 

 feather with a dark brownish black longitudinal streak in the 

 line of the shaft ; wing-primaries fvlmost black, the first and 

 second with a white patch towards the end ; the tail-feathers 

 with the basal halves mottled with two shades of brown, the 

 third portion white, the ends black ; the outside tail-feathers 

 shorter than those in the middle. The chin and throat white ; 

 the neck and breast pale brownish white, each feather streaked 

 along the centre Avith blackish brown ; belly, sides, and 

 flanks, almost white, with long, narrow, longitudinal streaks ; 

 vent and under tail-coverts bufTy white, without streaks ; legs 

 and toes yellow ; the claws almost black. 



The whole length seventeen inches. The wing, from the 

 carpal joint to the end, nine inches and three-quarters : the 

 first and second quill-feathers nearly equal in length, and the 

 longest in the wing. 



The plumage in the two sexes is nearly similar. 



In young birds the markings of the plumage are less dis- 

 tinct. 



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