BAETEAM'S SAXDPIPEE. 39 



one foot and half an inch; bill, slender, and slightly curved 

 towards the tip, the upper mandible deep brown, the lower 

 one light brown, dark at the point. Head on the sides and 

 crown, brown, the feathers edged with buff, the latter colour 

 shewing more on the sides; neck on the back, brownish buff, 

 minutely spotted with dark brown; chin, white; throat, buff 

 white, the dark centres of the feathers forming lines of spots; 

 breast, buff white, with dark brown arrow-head shaped markings 

 near the tip of each feather, growing paler below till it ends 

 in white. Back dark olive brown, each feather edged with 

 buff. 



The wings reach in expanse to the width of two feet, or 

 a trine over; greater and lesser wing coverts, dark olive brown, 

 each feather edged with buff; primaries, brownish lead-colour, 

 the broad web towards the quill white, banded and marked 

 with blackish brown, the shaft of the first primary only white, 

 the rest black, the tips minutely edged with buff; tertiaries, 

 brownish lead-colour edged with buff, each feather marked 

 with bands of dark brown, ending in black spots near the 

 buff border, and with a black patch at the tip minutely edged 

 with buff. The tail is wedge-shaped, the shafts of the feathers 

 are black, the webs grey brown, shading off into a whitish 

 buff border, with a row of black spots all round; the feathers 

 on each side bright fawn-colour, the shafts and edges paler, 

 with a similar row of black spots, the last feather outside 

 white barred with black; all the tail feathers, except the two 

 outer ones, have a large black patch at the tip, with the 

 remainder about it white; under tail coverts, white. The 

 legs are bare of feathers some way above the knee joint. 



