294 GAME BIRDS AND WILD FOWL. 



ground colour from pale to rich buff, sometimes tinged with olive, 

 handsomely blotched and spotted with rich reddish brown and 

 blackish brown, and with numerous underlying markings of ink- 

 gray. They measure on an average i'4S inch in length by i •cinch 

 in breadth. The parent birds are said to be very tame at the nest, 

 only flying away for a little distance when flushed from the eggs. 

 But one brood is reared in the season, and the southern flight 

 commences shortly after the young can fly. 



Diagnostic Characters. — Tringa, with the under surface 

 of the wings buif, mottled with black ahd white, and the tail 

 graduated. Length, 7 to 8 inches. 



