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and upper part of the back, ash-grey, slightly varied with 

 occasional darker-coloured streaks ; wing-primaries black, 

 the shaft of the first quill-feather white, the others with 

 shafts of light brown ; secondaries and wing-coverts greyish- 

 black, the margins varied with white ; the plumage of the 

 lower part of the back almost black ; the upper tail-coverts 

 white, each of the few feathers between these surfaces have 

 two semicircular bands of dark grey on a ground of white ; 

 tail-feathers white, with numerous ash-coloured bands, 

 broadest on those of the centre, with about twelve narrower 

 bands on each outside tail-feather, middle tail-feathers rather 

 the longest of the series; wings reaching half an inch 

 beyond the end of the tail ; chin and upper part of the 

 throat white ; neck in front and diverging to each side 

 of the breast white, streaked with ash-grey longitudinally ; 

 front of the breast, the belly, flanks, and under tail- 

 coverts, pure white ; all the bare parts of the legs and 

 toes yellow ; axillary plumes pure white banded with grey. 



As the young of the Eedshank, with pale yellow legs, has 

 several times been mistaken for the Yellow-shanked Sand- 

 piper, it may be pointed out that T. flavipes has a much 

 more slender bill, a longer tarsus, and axillaries which are 

 distinctly barred : not white like those in the Kedshank. 



