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and their coverts are unspotted, the posterior ones edged at the tip with white : shaft of the 

 first quill white. Tail broccoli-brown, with nine blackish-brown bars. Chin and both eyelids 

 brownish-white. Under plumage wood-brown, the neck and sides of the head thickly striped 

 with liver-brown ; breast and flanks marked with arrow-headed spots of the same, which 

 exist on the belly also, though smaller and more scattered. Inner wing coverts pale reddish- 

 orange, irregularly barred with liver-brown. Bill brownish-black ; flesh-red at the base 

 beneath. Legs dark bluish-grey. 



Form. — Bill comparatively short and very slender, slightly arched ; nasal groove extending 

 two-thirds its length. Wings much pointed, equal to the square tail. Toes short and stout, 

 connected by shorter webs than those of Numenius Hudsonicus. Middle nail entire. Hind 

 toe short ; its nail curved inwards. 









Dimensions. 















Inch. 



Lin. 





Inch. 



Lin. 





Inch. 



Lin. 



Length, total 



14 







Length of bill above 



2 



3 



Length of middle nail 



. 



3* 



,, excluding bill 



12 







,, of bill to rictus . 



2 



n 



„ of hind toe 



. 



3* 



„ of tail 



3 



9 



,, of tarsus 



. 1 



10 



,, of hind nail 



. 



H 



„ of wing 



. 8 



9 



„ of middle toe 



1 







Extent of wing 



. 28 







[147.] 1. Tringa Douglasii. (Swainson.) Douglas's Sandpiper. 



Genus, Tringa, Biuss. 



Ch. Sp. Teinga Douglasii, pedibus semipalmatis, rostro tarsisque elongatis, caudd leviler trifurcillata ; rectri- 

 cibus mediis ferrugineo fasciatis, auricularibus castanets, uropygio albo nigro fasciato. 



Sp. Ch. Douglas's Sandpiper, fore toes connected by short webs ; bill and tarsi long, the former dilated at the 

 point ; tail slightly doubly-notched ; ear feathers chestnut-coloured ; rump banded with black and white 

 and the middle tail feathers with ferruginous. 



Plate lxvi. 



This species is not uncommon in the fur-countries up to the sixtieth parallel, 

 and perhaps still farther north. It has the usual habits of the genus, frequents 

 the interior in the breeding season, and resorts to the flat shores of Hudson's 

 Bay in the autumn, previous to taking its departure for the south. We have 

 not had an opportunity of comparing it with an authenticated example of the 

 TV. himantopus of the Prince of Musignano ; but the latter is described as a 

 smaller bird, with rather longer thighs and legs, an even grey tail, the central 

 pair of feathers alone longer than the others and not banded with ferruginous ; 

 no mention is made of the colour of the ear feathers. 



DESCRIPTION 

 Of a specimen, killed on the Saskatchewan, in June, 1827. 



Colour. — Top of the head, the scapulars, interscapulars, and tertiaries, blackish-brown, 



3 C 2 



