THE DUNLIN. 



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The Dunlin (Calidris a. aljrina). 

 winter. 



Male adult, 



streaked appearance, those of mantle and scapulars with faint white 

 edges ; back, rump and upper tail-coverts black-brown, feathers 

 edged ash-brown, sides of back, rump and lateral upper tail-coverts 

 white ; ear-coverts, cheeks and sides of neck white streaked ash- 

 brown ; from base of 

 upper mandible over and 

 behind eye, a white band, 

 more or less streaked ash- 

 brown above and behind 

 eye ; loral streak ash- 

 brown ; chin and throat 

 white ; breast white more 

 or less clouded pale ash- 

 brown, and narrowly 

 streaked ash-brown ; sides 



of belly sometimes spotted dusky or more or less washed ash- 

 brown ; remaining under -parts white ; tail-feathers pale ash- 

 brown faintly margined white, inner webs of central pair black- 

 brown ; primaries black-brown, paler on inner webs and shading to 

 white at utmost base, 6th and succeeding with white borders towards 

 base of outer webs, increasing in extent on inner ones, shafts white ; 

 secondaries black-brown, tipped white, inner webs paler and bases 

 white, those next innermost more or less white, innermost and 

 coverts as scapulars ; primary-coverts black-brown with white tips, 

 most pronounced on inner ones ; greater coverts ash-brown, broadly 

 tipped white ; median and lesser coverts ash-brown with dark 

 shafts and whitish edges. This plumage is acquired by a complete 

 moult July to Nov. Summer. — The body-feathers (not all scapulars, 

 nor all feathers of back and rump), very occasionally central pair 

 , of tail - feathers or an 



odd tail-feather, some- 

 times some innermost 

 secondaries and coverts, 

 but not rest of tail- 

 feathers nor wings are 

 moulted March to June ; 

 sometimes a few winter- 

 feathers are retained on 

 mantle. Crown black - 

 brown, feathers edged at 

 sides pink - cinnamon ; 

 nape dusky- white or huf- 

 fish streaked dusky, some- 

 times suffused pink-cin 

 namon; mantle, scapulars, 

 and new feathers of back black-brown, broadly edged and marked 

 orange -cinnamon ; upper tail-coverts black-brown, tipped and 

 notched, and sometimes irregularly marked, orange -cinnamon ; eye- 

 stripe white spotted dusky ; ear -coverts whitish -buff ; cheeks and 



The Dunlin. Tail and upper tail-coverts spread. 



