PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 657 



and the changes of plumage which it undergoes are un- 

 known.''"' 



The stomach of one examined by Mr. Audubon contained 

 the remains of small Crustacea, seeds, and fragments of quartz. 



I am in this instance also indebted to Mr. Audubon for 

 the specimen of Tri'nga pectorah's, from which the figure was 

 drawn and the following description taken. 



The beak is dark brown at the point, orange brown at the 

 base ; irides dark brown ; feathers of the top of the head dusky 

 brown, with darker central streaks, and tipped with rufous ; 

 the back of the neck, the wing-coverts, the back, and the 

 tertials dark brown, with lighter coloured margins ; primaries 

 dusky black, the shaft of the first white ; secondaries dusky 

 black each with a narrow edge of white ; rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts, and the two middle tail-feathers, which are the 

 longest, black ; the rest of the tail-feathers ash brown tipped 

 Avith yellowish white ; chin white ; the cheeks, sides and 

 front of the neck, and the upper part of the breast, greyish 

 white tinged with brown and streaked with dusky black in 

 the line of the shaft of each feather ; lower part of the breast, 

 belly, and under tail-coverts white ; legs and toes yellowish 

 brown ; claws black. 



The whole length eight inches and three quarters ; the 

 wing from the carpal joint to the end of the first quill-feather, 

 which is the longest, five inches and three-eighths. 



While the account of this Sandpiper was going through 

 the press, Mr. Mitchell very kindly sent me his specimen 

 from Cornwall for my temporary use ; and this bird, killed 

 as stated on the 27th of May, has all the feathers of the 

 back, the scapulars, tertials, and two middle tail-feathers 

 broadly edged with ferruginous, which in my own bird, killed 

 at a different season of the year, are pale brownish white. 



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