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white, varied with black spots and tinged with buffy red ; 

 belly, vent, and under tail-coverts white ; legs, toes, and 

 claws, greenish black. The whole length of the adult birds 

 six inches and three-eighths ; wing, from the carpal joint to 

 the end of the first, which is the longest feather, three 

 inches and seven-eighths ; length of the tarsus five-eighths. 



The young bird so closely resembles the parent in its 

 plumage at this season, that it is unnecessary to describe it. 



The example figured by Mr. Gould in his Birds of Eu- 

 rope, was killed in autumn, and has the margins of the fea- 

 thers on the upper surface of the body almost white. 



By the kindness of Mr. Bartlett I now possess a specimen 

 of this bird in its winter plumage which closely resembles 

 that of our Dunlin at the same season. The beak is dark 

 brown, almost black ; from the base of the beak to the eye 

 a brown streak, over that a broad one of white ; top of the 

 head, nape, back, all the wing- coverts and tertials ash grey, 

 the centre of each feather darker and the margin lighter ; 

 primaries black ; chin, neck in front, and all the under 

 surface, pure white ; legs blackish brown. The bird in this 

 state of plumage is well figured in the 16th Part of ' Gray 

 and Mitchell's Genera of Birds.' 



The figure below represents one of the eggs which is 

 mottled with chocolate brown ; upon the others the choco- 

 late brown colour was uniformly spread over the whole 

 surface. 



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