298 SANDPIPER. 



and nape nearly plain, the feathers slightly edged with white; over 

 the eye a whitish trace ; back and inner wing coverts spotted with 

 white; lesser wing coverts and quills plain brown; the outer one 

 longest, and the shaft white ; inner scapulars as long as the quills; 

 rump white ; tail short, barred brown and white ; wings and tail 

 even ; chin white ; throat and breast mottled, or barred dusky and 

 dirty white ; belly and vent white ; under wing coverts mixed pale 

 ash brown and white ; legs pale brown. 



Inhabits Ceylon. In the collection of Mr. Comyns. 



64. -BLACK-SIDED SANDPIPER. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill one inch and a quarter, black, 

 and a trifling swelling at the point; irides dark ; crown black ; the 

 forehead white, passing as a band over the eyes, and surrounding 

 the hindhead as a wreath ; between the bill and eye white, dotted 

 with black, changing just before the eye to black, and passing 

 through it, ends in a tine line behind ; the rest of the head and neck 

 pale ash-colour, inclining on the ears to rufous; the back and wings 

 deeper, tinged with brown on the wing coverts ; sides of the belly 

 covered with black feathers ; the rest of the under parts white ; tail 

 white, even at the end, with a bar of black, three quarters of an inch 

 wide, very near the tip ; wings and tail equal in length ; legs two 

 inches long ; the hind toe small, placed too high up to be of use in 

 walking. The female has the crown less dark, the wreath over the 

 eye more narrow, and the white less pure; the streak through the 

 eye dusky, and less conspicuous ; the parts between the bill and eye, 

 and the chin plain white ; breast marbled with reddish brown ; the 

 rest as in the other sex. — Inhabits India ; found at Cawnpore in 

 January. — General Hardwicke. 



