76 SCOLOPACID.E. 



The winter plumage, in which our drawing is represented, 

 is as follows : — the upper part of the head, nape, back of the 

 neck, and back, as well as the scapulars, wing-coverts, and 

 tertials, are bistre-coloured brown, with dusky markings on 

 the shafts of the feathers ; the throat and streak over the 

 eye white, as also the belly, vent, and under tail-coverts. 

 The tips of the greater wing-coverts being white, form a band 

 across the wing ; the sides of the neck and the breast are 

 cinereous bistre-brown, the same as the four middle tail- 

 feathers ; the two outer tail-feathers are cream-white. The 

 beak is dusky, the legs olivaceous-brown, the iris dusky. 



The young bird of the year has a general colouring of 

 cinereous brown on the upper parts, but the feathers are 

 marked with a double edging of dusky and cream colour ; 

 and although the chin is white, and the belly, vent, and under 

 tail-coverts the same, the white is soiled. 



It should here also be remarked, that the tail, of which the 

 two middle feathers are the longest, is cuneiform, in which it 

 differs widely from the Little Stint. 



