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SCOLOPACID^E. 



white ; the neck white, streaked with grey ; the breast 

 dull white, tinged with reddish buff. 



Adult birds in winter have all the upper surface of the 

 body and the wing-coverts uniform ash grey ; wing- 

 primaries as in summer ; all the front of the neck, the 

 breast, and under surface of the body white, slightly 

 streaked with grey. 



