SANDPIPER. GRALLATORES. TOTANUS. 1 
Fig. 
with narrow transverse white bars. The base of the 
lower mandible is brick-red, the other part brownish- 
black. The legs are red. 
2. represents the young of the year (or Spotted Snipe 
Youn 
bird o 
of authors), and is taken from a specimen killed on the year, 
coast of Norfolk, and presented to me by H. Girpie- 
sTONE, Esq. of Yarmouth. 
The bill is brownish-black ; the base of the under mandible 
red. Between the bill and eyes is a patch of white, and 
below is another of hair-brown. The chin and throat 
are white. The forepart of the neck, the breast, and all 
the under parts, are greyish-white, with transverse un- 
dulating bars of pale hair-brown. The hindpart of the 
neck is hair-brown, the feathers being margined with 
greyish-white. The back is clove-brown, the margins 
of the feathers having small triangular spots of white. 
The wing-coverts, scapulars, and tertials, are deep 
clove-brown, with large triangular white bars and spots. 
Tail deep hair-brown, barred with greyish-white, and 
forming (as observed by Monvacv) a double fork ; the 
middle and outer feathers being the longest. The lower 
part of the back is white. The upper tail-coverts are 
white, with dark hair-brown bars. Legs and toes 
orange-red. 
F the 
The adult bird in the winter plumage has the eye-brows Adult bird 
pure white; and between the bill and the eyes is a 
dusky patch or streak. The crown of the head, the 
sides and back part of the neck, and upper part of the 
back, are of a fine ash-grey. The chin, throat, and 
under parts, are of pure white. The scapulars and ter- 
tials are ash-grey, having the margins of the feathers 
with alternate bars of white and hair-brown. The 
wing-coverts are deep ash-grey, barred upon their mar- 
gins with white and blackish grey. The lower part of 
the back is white. The upper tail-coverts white, barred 
in winter 
plumage. 
