80 GRALLATORES. TOTANUS.  Sanppiper. 
and wing-coverts are larger and purer in colour, and 
the scapulars are obscurely barred with a deeper shade 
of hair-brown. 
The following is a description of the bird of the year, 
from a specimen killed at Ellingham in September 
1828, and kindly presented to me by the late Tuomas 
Haccrrstone, Esq. 
Between the bill and eyes is a narrow blackish-brown 
streak. The temples and eyebrows are white, finely 
streaked with hair-brown. Chin and throat pure white. 
Crown of the head dark brown, having the feathers 
finely margined with yellowish-brown. Nape and sides 
of the neck greyish-white, striated with brown. Breast 
white; each feather having a brown streak down the 
shaft, and being very finely margined with hair-brown. 
The flanks are marked with undulating bars of brown 
and yellowish-white. Belly and abdomen white. ‘The 
back, scapulars, and wing-coverts deep brown, with a 
purplish gloss, and each feather having a large reddish 
white spot on each side of the shaft near the tip. The 
quills are brownish-black ; the shaft of the first one be- 
ing white. The secondaries margined with yellowish- 
white. The lower part of the back is greyish-black, 
margined with white. ‘The rump and upper tail-coverts 
white; the tips of some of the latter with a hair-brown 
spot. ‘Tail barred with deep hair-brown and white; the 
outer feathers having their inner webs nearly pure white. 
Legs and toes wax-yellow, tinged with greenish gre y. 
Bill black at the tip, and the base tinged with green. 
