BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



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primary, white, with black bars; axillaries, white, barred 

 with brown ; tail, buffish-orange, reddish-brown, and white, 

 barred with black ; irides, hazel ; bill, yellowish-buff, darker 

 at tip ; legs and feet, buffish. Length, about twelve inches. 



Curlew Sanbpiper. 



THE Curlew Sandpiper (Tringa subarquata, Guldenstadt) 

 is a common spring and autumn migrant to the British 

 Isles. It is also met with in the Polar Regions. The 

 adult in summer has the mantle, neck, and head, chestnut, 

 barred and streaked with grey and black; upper tail-coverts, 

 white, with a buffish tinge, and broadly barred with black ; 

 primaries and tail, ashy-grey, with white shafts; beneath, 

 chestnut, shading on sides of body and vent to a rusty 

 colour, with markings of black ; irides, hazel-brown ; bill, 



