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SCOLOPACID.E. 



neck, throat, and breast, streaked downwards with ash brown 

 lines on a ground of dull greyish white ; belly, vent, and 

 under tail-coverts white ; sides, axillary plume, and under 

 Aving-coverts white, with a few transverse dusky bars ; legs, 

 toes, and claws, olive green. 



The whole length not quite nine inches. From the carpal 

 joint to the end of the first quill-feather, Avhich is the longest 

 in the wing, five inches. 



Some specimens of these birds in the collection of Richard 

 Dann, Esq., obtained in Norway in the breeding-season, have 

 the streaks and lines on the neck and breast, and the feathers 

 on the back and wings so black in colour, and extending over 

 so large a space in each feather, as to exhibit but little of the 

 light-coloured spotting observed in the plumage of the speci- 

 mens generally obtained in this country, and give the bird 

 something of the dark appearance of the Spotted Redshank, 

 figured at page 520. 



Beneath are representations of a feather from the axillary 

 plume and middle of the tail in the Wood Sandpiper. 



