LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Killdeer Plover (Ch. vociferus), half tail 



British Golden Plover (Ch. a. oreophilos) and Northern Golden Plover 



(Ch. a. apricarius), heads, males adult, summer 

 Grey Plover (Squatarola s. squatarola), head and inner secondary of 



juvenile . . . . . . . . . . . . 



Lapwing ( Vanellus vanellus), head of female adult 



Turnstone (Arenaria i. interpres), head of female adult 



Bartram's Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda), outer primary . . 



Ruff (Philomachus pugnax), head and ruff, male adult, summer 



Reeve, head of juvenile 



Sanderling (Crocethia alba), head of male adult 



Knot (Calidris c. canutus), head of female 



Dunlin (C. a. alpina), head and tail of male adult 



Curlew -Sandpiper (C. ferruginea), bill and upper tail-coverts . . 



Little Stint (C. minuta), head of female adult 



Temminck's Stint (C. temminckii), tail 



Siberian Pectoral Sandpiper (C. acuminata) and American Pectoral 



Sandpiper (C. maculata), tails 

 Baird's Sandpiper (C . bairdii), upper tail-coverts 

 Purple Sandpiper (C. m. maritima), head 

 Buff -breasted Sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis), two outer primaries 

 Semi-palmated Sandpiper (Ereunetes p. pusillus), foot . . 

 Broad-billed Sandpiper (Limicola f. fa Icinellus), head .. 

 Red-breasted Sandpiper (Macrorhamphus g. griseus), head 

 Terek Sandpiper (Terekia cinerea), head . . . . . . 



Common Sandpiper (Tringa hypoleucos) and Spotted Sandpiper 



(T. macularia), heads 

 Spotted Sandpiper and Common Sandpiper, 8th and 9th secondaries 

 Solitary Sandpiper (T. s. solitaria), Wood-Sandpiper (T. glareola) and 



Green Sandpiper (T. ochropus), tails . . . . . . . . 



Common Redshank (T. t. tot-anus), Yellowshank (T. flavipes), Greater 



Yellowshank (T. melanoleuca), and Greenshank (T. nebularia), 



bills 



Spotted Redshank (T. erythropus), and Common Redshank (T. t. 



totanus), inner secondaries . . . . . . 



Plate 9. — Nestlings in down of : 1, Dotterel (Charadrius morinellus). 



2, Golden Plover (Ch. apricarius). 3, Common Sandpiper (Tringa 



hypoleucos). 4, Common Redshank (T. t. totanus). 5, Common 



Snipe (Capella g. gallinago). 6, Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) 



facing 

 Marsh -Sandpiper (T. stagnatilis), head 

 Grey-rumped Sandpiper (T. i. brevipes), head 



Grey Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius), head of juvenile and foot 

 Red-necked Phalarope (Ph. lobatus), head of juvenile 

 Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus h. himantopus), head 

 Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta), head of juvenile 

 Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa I. lapponica), head 

 Bar-tailed Godwit and Black-tailed Godwit (L. I. limosa), half the 



tails 

 Black-tailed Godwit, claw of middle toe 

 Common Curlew (Numenius a. arquata), bill of adult male 

 Whimbrel (N. ph. phceopus), head of adult male 

 Slender-billed Curlew (N. ienuirostris), belly-feather 

 Great Snipe (Capella media) and Common Snipe (C. g. gallinago), half 



the tails 

 Jack Snipe (Lymnocryptes minimus), half the tail 

 Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola), head 

 Black Tern (Chlidonias n. niger), head of juvenile 

 Black Tern and Common Tern (Sterna h. hirundo), feet 

 Whiskered Tern (Ch. I. leucopareius), bill 



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