WOOD SANDPIPER. 653 



coverts, white, with a few transverse dusky bars ; legs, toes, 

 and claws, olive green. 



The whole length is not quite nine inches. From the 

 carpal joint to the end of the first quill-feather, which is 

 the longest in the wing, five inches. 



Some specimens of these birds in the collection of 

 Richard Dann, Esq., obtained in Norway in the breeding- 

 season, have the streaks and lines on the neck and breast, 

 and the feathers on the back and wings so black in colour, 

 and extending over so large a space in each feather, as to 

 exhibit but little of the light-coloured spotting observed in 

 the plumage of the specimens generally obtained in this 

 country, and give the bird something of the dark appear- 

 ance of the Spotted Redshank, figured at page 624. 



Beneath are representations of a feather from the axillary 

 plume and middle of the tail in the Wood Sandpiper. 





