WHIMBREL CURLEW. 201 



wing-coverts, tertials, secondaries, and tail are all of a brown- 

 ish-white, the feathers having dusky brown centres and shafts ; 

 the sides of the breast are also marked with dusky brown 

 spots on a white ground ; the under parts are white, most 

 beautifully marked with dusky spots. The beak is dusky, 

 and yellow at the base of the under mandible ; the iris is 

 brown; quills dusky; legs bluish ash-colour. The chin is 

 white. 



