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Adult Male. General colour above dark brown, the lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts light cinnamon-rufous ; lesser 

 and median wing-coverts like the back, the greater coverts 

 darker brown, broadly tipped with white, forming a wing- 

 band ; primary-coverts and quills blackish with white fringes 

 or tips ; the long primaries white on the inner web till near 

 the ends, which are blackish-brown; the first four primaries 

 with a white mark along the shaft at a short distance from the 

 tip ; the rest of the primaries with a white mark before the 

 end of the outer web ; the secondaries blackish, white at the 

 base, on the inner web, and along the tip, the white increasing 

 on the inner secondaries, and the black decreasing to a spot 

 on the outer web, and finally disappearing altogether on the 

 interior quills ; the long innermost secondaries like the back, 

 the outer ones light ashy-brown, dark brown along the outer 

 web, the tip of which is white ; outer tail-feathers cinnamon- 

 rufous, broadly tipped with white, before which is a sub- 

 terminal bar of black ; crown of head dark brown, separated 

 from the mantle by a black collar ; forehead white, with a 

 black bar behind ; a broad white eyebrow ; under surface of 

 body white, with a broad, black collar across the fore-neck, 

 uniting to the collar round the hind-neck ; this black collar 

 succeeded by a narrower collar of white, and again on the 

 chest by a second black collar ; bill black ; feet pale pinkish 

 or pale greyish-yellow ; iris dark brown ; eyelid orange-red or 

 scarlet. Total length, 9 inches ; oilmen, 0*85 ; wing, 8'o ; 

 tail, 3-8; tarsus, 1-3. 



Adult Female. Similar to the* male. Total length, 10 inches ; 

 oilmen, 0-95 ; wing, 6-5 ; tail, 3-8 ; tarsus, 1-35. 



Winter Plumage. Like the summer plumage, but rather 

 browner, and not quite so grey. 



Young Birds. Resemble the adults, but have sandy-rufous 

 edges to the feathers of the upper surface. 



Eange in Great Britain. The Kill-deer Dotterel is said to have 

 occurred twice in England. The first one was recorded by Dr. 

 Sclater in 1862, and was said to have been killed in April, 1857, 

 near Christchurch, in Hampshire, on the authority of Mr. J. R. 

 Wise. Another specimen was shot by Mr. Jenkinson at Tresco, 

 in the Scilly Isles, on the i5th of January, 1885. 



