RING DOTTEREL. 185 



and the outer entirely white ; the upper tail-coverts are 

 white; the eye dusky brown, the eyelids yellow; the beak 

 is orange at the base, yellow about its centre, and black 

 at the tip ; legs and feet orange-yellow, claws black. 



The female is marked much the same as the male, but 

 the markings on the white ground are dusky, where they are 

 black in the other sex. 



The young of the year has only a dusky mark between 

 the beak and the eye, the forehead dirty-white ; the feathers 

 of the upper parts are edged with pale yellow, the gorget on 

 the breast is cinereous brown ; the beak entirely dusky, the 

 feet yellow. 



The egg figured 223 is that of the Ring Dotterel. 



