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65.— CRESCENT SANDPIPER, 



SIZE small. Bill deep blue black; plumage above ash-colour, 

 with marks of black, in the shape of crescents ; beneath paler, as 

 far as the throat, and plain ; belly, thighs, and vent white ; second 

 quills dusky brown; greater black; tail dusky black; some of the 

 outer feathers white, shape rounded ; legs dusky black. 



From the drawings in possession of Mr. Dent, but without any 

 history annexed. The bill has the upper mandible curved at the 

 point; and the roof of the mouth beset with recurved spinous 

 appendages, as in the Grey Sandpiper, but does not seem to belong 

 to that Species. 



66,— WHITE-TAILED SANDPIPER. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill one inch and a half, green ; irides 

 pale green ; the plumage in general above olive brown, inclining to 

 ash-colour, marked on the back, inner parts of the wing coverts, and 

 outer edges of the second quills with small white spots; the rest of 

 the wing coverts, and quills plain, and darker; forehead, sides of the 

 head, chin, and neck before whitish, with numerous fine dusky 

 streaks; breast ash-colour ; belly, thighs, upper tail coverts, and tail, 

 white ; quills as long as the tail ; legs green. 



Inhabits India. — General Hardwicke. 



67.— PEREGRINE SANDPIPER. 



LENGTH nearly eight inches. Bill, to the gape, one inch and 



a quarter, dusky ; all above brownish ash-colour, mottled in bars 



with darker; beneath white, with a cinereous tinge on the chin and 



neck before ; the wing black, down the middle of it a slender white 



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