passes from the base of the bill through and slightly below the eye to the hind neck ; bill blackish 

 mud-green ; inside of mouth dark flesh-colour ; legs yellowish grey with dark leaden grey tarsal joints 

 and toes; claws black. Total length about 6 inches, culmen 1-3, wing 4-1, tail 1-6, tarsus 088. 



Adult Female. Resembles the male, but has the feathers on the upper parts rather more broadly margined, 

 and the throat appears, as a rule, to be less spotted ; but these differences are very slight. 



Adult in winter (Egypt) . Upper parts generally ashy grey with a dusty brownish tinge, the centres of the 

 feathers darker ; rump black, most of the feathers with light margins ; wings and tail as in the summer 

 dress, but rather lighter ; underparts white ; the throat slightly marked with small, short, blackish grey 

 striations. 



Young in down (Muonioniska) . A narrow stripe from the base of the upper mandible, widening towards the 

 centre of the crown until it covers the whole hind crown, black tinged with chestnut, and on the hind 

 crown spotted with white ; upper parts generally black, minutely spotted with white, and marked with 

 chestnut on the sides ; sides of the head and fore crown and underparts white, tinged with buff on the 

 throat j a black patch before the eye, below which a black line passes along the side of the head to the 

 nape. 



Young in first autumn. Scarcely differs from the adult bird in summer plumage, the only difference being 

 that the young bird has the feathers on the upper parts a trifle more broadly margined with dull greyish 

 white. 



Obs. M. G. Lunel (Bull. Soc. Orn. Suisse, p. 31, pi. 1) remarks that the chin of the present species is 

 devoid of feathers. Judging, however, from the series I have before me, the specimen, the bill of 

 which he figures, must have had the chin unusually bare ; for in all of mine the feathers extend over 

 only a little less area than in other allied waders ; and this character pointed out by M. Lunel is only a 

 slight one. 



During the summer season the present species inhabits the northern portions of Scandinavia and 

 Russia, migrating in the autumn down into Southern Europe ; and though nowhere numerous, 

 it has in the autumn and winter been met with in most parts of Europe, except in the extreme 

 west ; and it is stated to have occurred in North Africa. In Asia it is found at least as far 

 east as India ; but it is difficult to define the limit of its range there, as it is replaced in China 

 by a somewhat closely allied species, but which appears to me to be fairly separable ; I have 

 therefore described it under the name of Limicola sibirica. There appear to be but four 

 instances of its occurrence in England — three at Breydon Harbour (viz. on the 25th May 1836, 

 on the 25th May 1856, and on the 23rd April 1868), and one at Shoreham, Sussex (in October 

 1845). It has not been recorded from Scotland; but, according to Thompson (B. of Ireland, ii. 

 p. 282), one was killed on the shores of Belfast Bay, in Ireland, on the 4th October, 1844. In 

 Scandinavia it is common in the summer. Mr. Collett says that it breeds in Finmark, Northern 

 Norway (as for instance at Bodo), and also on the southern fells (where it occurs commonly on 

 the branches of the Dovre and Langfjelden). It breeds on the fells of the Gudbrandsdale down to 

 the Neverfjeld, near Lillehammer, on the Jotunfjeld, at Vinstervandene, and frequently on the 

 V alder sfjeldene down to Land in 60J° N. lat. On passage it visits the lowlands sparingly, and 

 has been shot in the OSrkedale, and has also on several occasions been obtained near Christiania 



