236 PURPLE OR ROCK SANDPIPER. 



green, dusky towards the point; iris hazel; feet 

 dull yellowish-green ; claws dusky. The general 

 colour of the upper parts is greyish- yellow, each 

 feather hlackish-brown in the centre ; wing-coverts 

 lighter ; quills and their coverts light greyish -brown, 

 greenish-black at the end, but with a whitish tip ; 

 the inner webs whitish in the greater part of their 

 'breadth, and beautifully dotted with black in undu- 

 lating lines ; the inner secondaries like the feathers 

 of the back ; the two middle tail-feathers greyish- 

 brown, dark brown glossed with green at the end, 

 and slightly margined and tipped with white, the 

 rest gradually paler to the outer, margined and 

 tipped with white, within which are two lines of 

 blackish-brown ; sides of the head, fore neck, and 

 sides, light yellowish-red ; the throat paler ; the 

 sides of the neck and body spotted with brownish- 

 black ; the rest of the lower parts paler and unspot- 

 ted. The lower wing-coverts are white, those near 

 the edge of the wing black in the centre ; the pri- 

 mary-coverts dotted with black, and having a spot 

 of the same near the edge. The female has the lower 

 parts paler, and the feathers of the upper parts of a 

 lighter brown, with an inner margin of broccoli- 

 black, and an outer edge of greyish-yellow."* 



THE PURPLE OR ROCK SANDPIPER, T. MARITIMA, 

 Brunnich. Trmgamgricans, Mont., Linn. Trans. 

 Becoisseau violet >, Temm. Selninger Sandpiper^ 

 * Ornith. Biog. iii. p. 452. 



