YELLOW -SHANKED SANDPIPER. 641 



have two semicircular bands of dark grey on a ground of 

 white; tail-feathers white, with numerous ash-coloured 

 bands, broadest on those of the centre, with about twelve 

 narrower bands on each outside tail-feather, middle tail- 

 feathers rather the longest of the series ; wings reaching 

 half an inch beyond the end of the tail ; chin and upper 

 part of the throat white ; neck in front and diverging to 

 each side of the breast white, streaked with ash grey 

 longitudinally ; front of the breast, the belly, flanks, and 

 under tail-coverts, pure white ; all the bare parts of the 

 legs and toes yellow ; axillary plume pure white. 



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