370 BAY-BIRDS. 



once into the sand, thus scratching a hole about three 

 inches deep and an inch and a half across. 



" Specific Character. — Bill black ; feet orange ; the 

 head and sides of the neck streaked and patched 

 with black and white ; fore part of the neck and 

 upper portion of the sides of the breast, black ; low- 

 er parts, hind part of the back, and upper t;dl-co\'- 

 erts white ; rump dusky ; rest of the up])er parts 

 reddish-brown, mottled with black ; primaries dusky ; 

 a band across the wings and the throat white. 

 Young with the head and neck all round, fore part 

 of the back, and sides of the breast, dusky brown, 

 streaked and margined with greyish-white ; wing- 

 coverts and tertials broadly margined with dull red- 

 dish-brown. It can at all times be identified by its 

 having the throat, lower parts, hind part of the back, 

 and the upper tail-coverts white, and the feathers 

 on the rump dusky. Adult with the bill black, 

 throat white, sides of the head mottled with black 

 and white ; crown streaked with black on white 

 ground ; on the hind neck a patch of white ; a patch 

 of black on the sides of the neck, of which color are 

 the fore-neck and the sides of the breast; lower 

 parts white ; tail blackish-brown, white at the base, 

 of which color are the lateral feathers, with a spot 

 of black on the inner vanes near the end — the rest 

 margined with reddish-brown, and tipped with 

 white ; upper tail-coverts white ; hind part of the 

 back white ; the feathers on the rump black ; fore 

 part of the back mottled with black and reddish- 

 brown ; piimaries dark brown, inner webs white ; 



