9772 Birds, 



Upper surface of body. — Upper scapulars and upper half of back 

 dull lead-gray, each feather with a darker shaft and brownish tip ; 

 lower scapulars similar in colour, but darker, especially towards the 

 tips; lower half of the back with less brown than the upper half; 

 upper tail-coverts very dark bluish gray at the tips, their concealed 

 portion brownish gray. 



Tail. — Shafts of the feathers white, except at the tips; in other 

 respects these feathers resemble the upper coverts, but the dark 

 colour occupying less space causes a lighter irregular transverse 

 band. 



Wings. — Third quill slightly longer than the second and longest in 

 the wing. Lesser coverts lead-gray, tinged in some parts with pale 

 brown, the shaft lines nearly black ; greater coverts of a browner hue, 

 much elongated, and with the webs disconnected, the concealed por- 

 tions of the inner ones brownish black ; alulae and primaries black, the 

 latter brownish at the tips ; secondaries and tertials black with white 

 shafts and paler at the base, the innermost of the terlials brownish 

 towards the tips. In the closed wing the terlials are longer than the 

 primaries, and the last feathers of the tertiary coverts are longer than the 

 terlials themselves. The long, drooping " plumes" are formed by the 

 greater coverts alone, especially by those nearest to the body, and not 

 by the tertials. 



Under surface of body indistinctly mottled with pale brownish gray 

 and pale lead-gray, the shafts darker ; at the upper part of the breast 

 a few dirty white feathers are intermixed. 



Feet, tarsi, and bare part of tibiae brownish black, tinged with olive, 

 the under surface of the feet paler ; claws black. 



Henry L. Saxby, 

 Baltasound, Shetland, August 21, 1865. 



Ornithological Notes from North Lincolnshire. 

 By John Cokdeaux, Esq. 



(Continued from page 9714.) 



August, 1865. 

 Ringed Dotterell. — August, in Humber Ornithology, may be called 

 the month of the ringed dotterell, as invariably during the first week 

 in this month, or within a kvf days of that time, the marshes are visited 

 by large flocks of these social and lively little birds, here better known 

 under the provincial name of "black heads," the word "dotterell" 



