Cuass II. LITTLE SANDPIPER. 
the outer webs, except the two first; the shaft 
of the first quil is white, the others dusky brown, 
spurious wing and smaller coverts near it dusky; ° 
the rest of the coverts and tertials cinereous, 
like the back; the rump and upper tail coverts. 
dusky ; the feathers slightly tipped with cinere- 
ous; the tail cuneiform, composed of twelve 
feathers, of which the six middle are cinereous, 
the outer of a pure white; the legs light olive 
brown, three quarters of an inch long; the 
claws black; the outer toe very slightly con- 
nected at the base to the middle one by a mem- 
brane.”* Ep. 
® Mont. orn. dict. App. 
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