GopwiITrT. GRALLATORES. LIMOSA, 97 
Piate 21. Fig. 1. Represents a female of the natural size. 
Bill orange-yellow at the base; tip black. Head, neck, coe 
upper part of the breast, back, and scapulars ash-grey, tion. ri 
tinged with hair-brown ; deepest upon the latter parts. Female. 
Chin, the streak over the eye, the whole of the under 
parts of the body, and the upper tail-coverts, white. 
Wing-coverts pale hair-brown, deeply margined with 
greyish-white. Quills brownish-black, with an angular 
white spot at their tips; the shafts, as well as the basal 
parts of the outer webs of the third, fourth, fifth, and 
following feathers pure white, and forming a bar across 
the wings. In the tail, the middle feathers are almost 
wholly black, the base alone being white ; and this in- 
creases progressively to the outer feather, which is white 
for upwards of half its length. But the tail, when not 
expanded, appears wholly black. The tips of the tail- 
feathers, in some specimens, are margined with greyish- 
white. Legs very long, with the tibiae naked for up- 
wards of an inch and three-quarters above the tarsal 
joint ; colour blackish-grey. 
Fig. 2. Represents the summer (or nuptial) plumage of the Male. 
male bird. 
Bill a fine orange-colour at the base, with the tip black. 
Crown of the head reddish-brown, streaked with black. 
Forehead, eye-streak, and chin, reddish-white. Cheeks, 
neck, and breast pale reddish-brown; the latter trans- 
versely barred with brownish-black. Belly, abdomen, 
thighs, and under tail-coverts, white, barred at distant 
intervals with pale reddish-brown and. blackish-brown. 
Back and scapulars black, having each feather margined 
and barred with reddish-brown, Smaller wing coverts, 
near the bend of the wing, of a deep hair-brown ; the 
greater coverts deeply margined with white. Tail 
black, with the bases of the feathers white. Legs black- 
ish-grey. 
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