SHORE BIRDS OF NOVA SCOTIA — GILPIN. 381 



pale greenish-yellow. General colour, head, neck, back and coverts 

 dark sepia, the edges of each feather margined with a lighter or 

 rufus brown. The rump sooty-black, reaching to end of closed 

 tail, which is margined with rufus. Primaries, secondaries and 

 tei tiaries blackish, edges light, which, with white shafts, gives 

 the appearance of a faint white line down each feather. Wing 

 coverts edged with white; faint dark line from mouth through 

 the eye; a broad faintish- brown collar about the breast; beneath, 

 to end of tail, white ; bill blackish. 



Another shot 20th September, 1880, at Digby, gives — 



Length, 0^ inches. 



Length of bill, f inch. 



Of tarsus, f inch. 



Wings spread, 11| inches. 

 Colour : forehead^ neck, back of neck, shoulders black, more or 

 less, but each feather with an edging of light ferruginous, on 

 neck and head less, but greater upon shoulders, wing coverts and. 

 tertiaries, the whole effect being black spots with a decided fer- 

 ruginous wash. The rump and middle tail feathers black, a 

 little white showing on either side of rump ; the edging of tail 

 feathers ferruginous, the side tail feathers lighter than middle 

 ones. Chin, and obscurely above eye, whitish, a very obscure 

 dusky line from bill to e3 T e ; neck to breast grey, pencilled black, 

 forming distinct colour. Below white to vent. The outside shaft 

 in the first primaries white. 



A Sand Peep shot at same time, 20th September, 1881, mea- 

 sured : — - 



Length, 8f inches. 



Length of tarsus, 15-16 inch. 



Length of bill, 1 inch. 



Stretch of wing, 16£ inches. 

 Though the greater size showed directly a different species, 

 yet I could find no difference in colour betwixt these than that 

 the wing coverts above the secondaries in the smaller were more 

 broadly edged with white. The bills in both were alike and 

 black nostrils basal, upper mandible with a sulcus running half 

 way to tip. Legs and feet in both dark brownish, four-toed and 



