80 GRALLATORES. TOTANUS. SANDPIPER. 



and wing-coverts are larger and purer in colour, and 

 the scapulars are obscurely barred with a deeper shade 

 of hair-brown. 



The following is a description of the bird of the year, 

 from a specimen killed at Ellingham in September 

 1828, and kindly presented to me by the late THOMAS 

 HAGGERSTONE, Esq. 



Between the bill and eyes is a narrow blackish-brown 

 streak. The temples and eyebrows are white, finely 

 streaked with hair- brown. Chin and throat pure white. 

 Crown of the head dark brown, having the feathers 

 finely margined with yellowish-brown. Nape and sides 

 of the neck greyish-white, striated with brown. Breast 

 white ; each feather having a brown streak down the 

 shaft, and being very finely margined with hair-brown. 

 The flanks are marked with undulating bars of brown 

 and yellowish- white. Belly and abdomen white. The 

 back, scapulars, and wing-coverts deep brown, with a 

 purplish gloss, and each feather having a large reddish 

 white spot on each side of the shaft near the tip. The 

 quills are brownish-black ; the shaft of the first one be- 

 ing white. The secondaries margined with yellowish- 

 white. The lower part of the back is greyish-black, 

 margined with white. The rump and upper tail-coverts 

 white ; the tips of some of the latter with a hair-brown 

 spot. Tail barred with deep hair- brown and white ; the 

 outer feathers having their inner webs nearly pure white. 

 Legs and toes wax-yellow, tinged with greenish gre y. 

 Bill black at the tip, and the base tinged with green. 



