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TOTANINiG. 



dusky, tie feathers edged with white or greyish white spots ; axillaries 

 ■white with transverse oblique dusky brown spots; primarieSj secondaries 

 and their coverts dusky brown, the shaft of the first quill and the tips of 

 the later inner ones white ; the greater wing-coverts margined and tipped 

 with white ; rump, upper and lower tail-coverts and abdomen white ; 

 tail, with the central feathers longest and barred with black and white 

 alternately, the barrings oblique, the rest less broadly barred and 

 decreasing on the outer ones to dusky markings on the outer webs 

 only ; legs pale olive green ; irides deep brown. 



Length. — 8'5 to 9 inches, wing 5, tail 2, bill at front 1*2, tarsus 1'5. 



Sab. — Common nearly throughout India, also in Beloochistan, 

 Persian Gulf, and Afghanistan during winter. 



Actitis OChropus, Linn.; P. E. 843; Gould. B. Eur. pi. 315, 1 ; 

 Jevd. B. hid, iii. 698; Murray, Hdbk., Zool., SfC, Sind, p. 221. — Thb 

 Geebn Sand-Pipee. 



In winter plumage the forehead, crown, nape and back of the neck 

 are deep or dusky brown, the feathers streaked with white; a dark 

 streak from the base of the bill to the eye, and a white one above it ; 

 chin and throat white ; back and scapulars olive brown or brown 

 glossed with greenish, each feather edged with small roundish spots, 

 the spots on the scapulars distinctly marginedbehind with deep brown; 

 primaries and their coverts and secondaries deep brown, none of them 

 white shafted; wing-coverts dusky brown; axillaries dusky or dark 

 brown, with narrow oblique white bars ; abdomen, vent and upper and 

 under tail-coverts white; tail white, broadly barred with deep brown, tlie 

 middle feathers having four bars, and those next to tliem decreasing in 

 number, the outer feathers on each side being pure white with some- 

 times a dusky subterminal spot on the outer web; legs and feet green- 

 ish grey ; bill black ; irides brown. 



Length.— ^-b to 10 inches, wing 5-5 to 6, tail 3, bill 1-37, tarsus 

 nearly r5. 



Eah, — Throughout India, Beloochistan, Persia and Afghanistan, fre- 

 quenting the banks of rivers, edges of lakes and large sheets of water; 

 a winter visitant, seldom seen along the sea coast. 



Actitis hypoleiaCTIS, Lin. ,- P. E. 850 ; Gould. B. Eur. pi. 318; 

 Jerd. iii. p. 699; 8tr. F. ii. p. 299; Murray, Edbh., Zool., Src, Sind, 

 p. 220. — The Common Sand-Pipee. 



Forehead, crown, nape and back of the head ashy brown, streaked 

 with dark narrow lines; supercilium white, also the orbital ring, cliin 

 and throat; sides of the face pale ashy with brown streiiks; n)iddle 

 of the breast white, the sides mottled or streaked with brown, or 

 entirely brown; back, scapulars, tertiaries and lesser wing-coverts asliy 

 brown, glossed with green, and with fine transverse dark lines ; grenter 

 wing-coverts ashy brown, tipped with white, which with the white 

 bases of the secondaries form a conspicuous wing band ; primaries and 

 their coverts dark brown, the latter tipped with white, and all, except 

 the first primary, and sometimes the second also, with a large white 

 epot on their inner webs; lower back, rump and upper tail.coverts 



