RINGED DOTTEREL. 301 



Around the mandible, cheeks and auriculars, 

 deep black ; on the forehead a band of white, which 

 reaches each anterior angle of the eye ; and, above 

 that, a broad band of black passing from eye to eye ; 

 the remainder of the head and nape hair-brown, a 

 pale streak sometimes passing over or behind each 

 eye. The chin and throat, passing in a collar around 

 the neck, pure white ; succeeding this is a gorget of 

 deep black, on the breast about an inch in breadth, 

 and passing entirely round the white in a narrow 

 circle, is blended into a chaste and uniform hair- 

 brown, investing all the upper parts, except the quills 

 and tail. The secondaries are tipped with white, 

 forming a bar across, and some of the last quills are 

 edged with the same colour on their outer webs. 

 The quills are deep clove-brown, a portion of the 

 shafts, about an inch from the tips white ; the tail 

 is hair-brown, with an apical nearly black clouded 

 band ; the centre feathers have a very slight mark 

 of white at the end ; the others, to the second from 

 the outside, are broadly tipped with white, the se- 

 cond has the outer web entirely white, and the ex- 

 terior is altogether of that colour. The lower parts, 

 below the pectoral gorget, are pure white ; the bill 

 is black at the tip ; the base, with the legs and feet, 

 rich gallstone-yellow. The above description is taken 

 from a bird killed in December, and although the 

 bill and legs, with the black parts of the plumage, 

 may become more brilliant and intense during in- 

 cubation, little apparent seasonal change takes place. 

 In the young of the first plumage, there is no ap- 



