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upper part of the back are ash-gray tinged with brown, 

 the shafts of the feathers inclining to black. The 

 coverts are of a dingy brown with gray margins, and 

 the ends of the large feathers whitish. The rump 

 and upper tail-coverts are dusky-brown, the edges 

 being lighter. The middle and longer tail-feathers are 

 brown, the shorter gray with whitish shafts. There 



CURLEW SANDPIPER. 



is a brown line from the eye to the corner of the 

 mouth, and above the eye a line of white ; the cheeks 

 are white and brown, the chin and throat white, the 

 upper breast gray and the lower white. In this 

 plumage the bird is called by some writers the " purre." 

 In summer the head, back of the neck and scapulars 

 become black, the feathers edged with reddish-brown, 

 the lower part of the back becomes dark, the chin 



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