2^2 SANDPIPER. 



7— BLACK-BACKED SANDPIPER. 



LENGTH about eleven inches. Bill from the gape one inch and 

 a half, dusky, bent at the tip, the under mandible yellowish ; top 

 of the head, neck, back, and wings, mixed dusky and cream-colour 

 in bars and spots, paler on the greater wing coverts, and second 

 quills; greater quills dusky black; the outer with a white shaft, 

 and eight or nine bars of white on the inner web; the others paler 

 within; down the middle of the back, rump, and upper tail 

 coverts, black; four middle tail feathers dusky, with seven or eight 

 narrow, black bars ; the others buff, with white ends, and three or 

 four irregular, narrow, black bars, and one broader near the end ; 

 shape at the end much rounded ; beneath the body white, barred on 

 the breast and belly with dusky; lower belly and vent plain white; 

 legs bare three quarters of an inch above the knee, colour pale 

 brown, hind toe three-eights of an inch, and so placed as not to be 

 useful in walking. 



Mr. Salt killed this on the Coast of Abyssinia, behind the Village 

 of Madir, in the Amphile. The stomach was full of locusts. 



8— WHITE-HEADED SANDPIPER. 



LENGTH twelve inches. Bill one inch and a half long, pale 

 red, one-fourth from the tip dusky ; head and sides beneath the eyes 

 pale grey, and freckled ; front, chin, whole of the neck, and all 

 beneath, dusky white, clouded on the breast with very pale rufous; 

 belly and thighs darker, being clouded with pale rufous and grey ; 

 back, wings, and tail, marbled with pale ash-colour, pale rufous, 

 and black ; wings and tail even at the end ; lesser wing coverts plain 



e ash-colour; legs red. 



