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wing-coverts are of a uniform dark olive-green, and the remiges are darker than 

 the coverts, inclining to black. The lower back and rump is of a dark olive-green, 

 faintly barred with white, while the upper tail-coverts are white. The tail is 

 crossed by four broad bars of dark olive-green on a white ground, but on the outer 

 feathers the bars decrease in number and width till the outermost become pure 

 white. The upper flanks are barred with dark olive-green, and the rest of the 

 under parts are white, save only the under surface of the wing, which is of a dark 

 olive-green barred with white, the bars on the axillaries taking the form of narrow 

 chevrons. After the autumn moult the bronze-green is exchanged for a dark 

 olive-green, while the spots disappear, save only on the scapulars and wings, 

 when they are much smaller than in summer. The fore-neck, fore-breast, and 

 flanks are ash-brown, more or less distinctly striated with darker brown. The 

 juvenile dress resembles that of the adult in summer, but the white spots are 

 replaced by similar markings of a buff colour, while the white upper tail-coverts 

 have dark tips, and the sides of the breast are tinged with brown. The young in 

 down differs from that of the young wood-sandpiper in having the ground-colour 

 of a greyish buff, while the chocolate markings on the crown take the form of a 

 narrow median stripe widening towards the occiput, where it joins a semicircular 

 loop whose free ends run forward above the eye to form a narrow loral stripe, 

 while the stripes along the back are somewhat broader, [w. P. P.] 



2. Distribution. Though there is no proof of the breeding of this species 

 in the British Isles, it is by no means improbable that it may have done so occa- 

 sionally. On the Continent it nests in Scandinavia up to the Arctic Circle in Sweden, 

 and Nordland in Norway ; in Finland to lat. 63, and in N. Russia to the south 

 of the White Sea, lat. 66 in the Kanin Peninsula and 61 in the Perm govern- 

 ment. Southward it ranges to Denmark, North Germany, locally in Bavaria and 

 Silesia, Bohemia, Galizia, Transylvania, the Tyrol, and Carinthia, as well as Central 

 Russia. In Asia its northern limit is about 61 in the west, the Arctic Circle on 

 the Yenisei, and 64 on the Lena ; eastward* it ranges to the Sea of Okhotsk, and 

 south to Transcaspia, Turkestan, and about 48 in Central Asia. It winters in 

 the Mediterranean basin, Southern Asia, the Malay Archipelago, and occurs in 

 Japan and Australia. In Africa it has been recorded from Angola on the west, 

 British Central Africa, and Portuguese East Africa, though Layard's records from 

 the Cape Colony have not been confirmed. As a casual it has occurred in Canada. 

 [F. c. R. j.] 



3. Migration. A bird of passage and a winter visitor to our coasts ; 



