BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 453 



Length to end of tail 8 inches, to end of wings 8^*3 ; extent of wings 

 18 ; wing from flexure 5| ; tail 2}| ; bill along the ridge ^§*, along the 

 edge of lower mandible 1 ; bare part of tibia ^2 ; tarsus 1^^, middle toe 

 11, its claw f |. Weight 2^ oz. 



Adult Female. Plate CCLXV. Fig. 2. 



The Female is somewhat larger than the male, which it resembles in 

 colour, but has the lower parts paler, and the feathers of the upper parts 

 of a lighter brown, with an inner margin of brownish-black and an outer 

 of greyish-yellow. 



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