BRITISH BIRDS. 



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THE PURPLE SANDPIPER. 



IMMATURE. 



THE base of the bill is reddish ; the rest of it to 

 the tip black; the head and neck are dusky brown, 

 tinged with ash, and somewhat clouded on the 

 latter; the side of the brow, a little before the eye> 

 is marked with a whitish spot; the chin and gullet 

 are white; on the upper part of the breast the 

 feathers are dusky, like the neck, and fringed 

 with white, but they appear grey: the lesser 

 coverts of the wings the same, but much darker in 

 the middle, and much lighter on the edges: the 

 back, scapulars, secondaries, and tertials, are 

 deepish brown, more or less bronzed and edged 

 with dull grey: and the latter and secondaries are 

 edged and tipped with white; the quills are deep 



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