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gincd with the same color ; hind part and sides of 

 the neck yellowish-brown, streaked with dusky; 

 fore part of the neck and breast paler, with pointed 

 streaks of dusky ; sides of the body barred with the 

 same; rest of lower parts yellowish- white; lower 

 wing-coverts white, barred with bru\vi;bh-black ; 

 upper plumage dark-brown, margined with yellow- 

 ish-brown, darker on the hind part of the back; 

 primaries dark-brown ; coverts the same color; inner 

 webs of the primaries barred with white, more par- 

 ticularly on the first the shaft of which is white ; 

 the rest brown, all tipped with white ; secondaries 

 more broadly tipped with the same; coverts and 

 scapulars dark-brown, margined with yellowish- 

 brown, and tipped with white ; tail barred with 

 black and yellowish-brown, tipped with white ; mid- 

 dle feathers darker, tipped with black. Length ten 

 inches and a half, wing six and five-eighths." 

 Giraud. 



RED-BACKED SANDPIPER. 



Winter Snipe. Black-breast. 

 Tringd Alpina, Wils. 



This bird absolutely has no common name. 



''Specific Character. Bill about one-third longer 

 than the head, bent towards the end ; length of tarsi, 

 one inch. Adult with the bill black one-third 

 longer than the head, slightly bent towards the end, 

 and rather shorter than that of T. Subarquata ; 

 upper part of the head, back, and scapular, chestnut- 



