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well as the sides of the body and flanks, are also barred with dusky 

 blackish, with a few bars on the under tail-coverts. 'Bill brown; feet 

 yellow-ocher ; iris dark brown.' (H. Whitely.) Length, 241; culmen, 

 38; wing, 155; tail, 66; tarsus, 29. 



"Adult female in breeding plumage. Does not differ from the male. 

 Length, 241; culmen, 38; wing, 152; tail, 66; tarsus, 30." (Sharpe.) 



This tattler occurs in great numbers during migration and may be 

 found feeding on tide-flats. 



Genus ACTITIS Illiger, 1811. 



Bill straight ; culmen, tarsus, and middle toe with claw subequal ; back 

 and rump uniform in color ; secondaries nearly as long as primaries. 



108. ACTITIS HYPOLEUCOS (Linnaeus). 

 COMMON SANDPIPER. 



Tringa hypoleucos LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 149. 



Tringoides hypoleucus SHABPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 4">J; 



Hand-List (1899), 1, 161; GATES, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 45. 

 Actitis hypoleucus MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 26. 



Agutaya ( McGregor)-, Balabac (Everett); Bantayan (McGregor); Basilan 

 (Steere Exp.) ; Batan ( McGregor) ; Bohol (Everett) ; Cagayancillo (McGregor); 

 Cagayan Sulu (Guillemard, McGregor); Calamianes (Bourns d Worcester); Ca- 

 layan (McGregor) ; Camiguin S. (Murray) ; Cebu (Everett, Bourns d Worcester, 

 McGregor); Cuyo (McGregor) ; Guimaras (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester); 

 Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Jagor, Everett, Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead. 

 McGregor); Masbate (Bourns d Worcester); Mindanao (Murray, Everett); 

 Mindoro (Schmacker, McGregor, Porter) ; Negros (Steere Exp., Bourns d Wor- 

 cester) ; Palawan (Everett, Platen, Whitehead, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, 

 White) ; Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; Samar ( Bourns d Worcester) ; 

 Sibay (McGregor d Worcester); Siquijor (Celestino) ; Ticao (McGregor) ; Verde 

 (McGregor). Africa, Europe, and northern Asia; south in winter from Indian 

 Peninsula to Australia. 



"Adult male in breeding plumage. Above bronzy brown, the feathers 

 with arrow-shaped central markings of black, which take the form of bars 

 on scapulars and inner secondaries, wing-coverts bronzy brown like the 

 back, but regularly barred with blackish ; median and greater coverts with 

 ashy fringes, the latter rather broadly tipped with white; alula, primary- 

 coverts, and quills brown with an olive gloss; secondaries tipped with 

 white and having a broad white base; inner secondaries like the back; 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts like the back; lateral coverts 

 barred with blackish and with white on outer web; tail-feathers bronzy 

 brown, with irregular cross-bars of blackish brown; middle feather- 

 narrowly, outer feathers broadly, tipped with white, penultimate feather 

 barred with white on outer web, outermost feather almost entirely white 

 with a little brown on inner web, which is barred with blackish; crown 

 and neck bronzy brown, with narrow mesial shaft-lines of blackish brown, 



