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A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



streaked sepia ; mantle and scapulars black-brown, edges of 

 feathers ash -brown and sometimes tinged light pink-cinnamon ; 

 back, rump and upper tail-coverts black-brown, feathers narrowly- 

 edged warm buff ; sides of back, rump and lateral upper tail- 

 coverts white, latter irregularly marked brown ; indistinct eye- 

 stripe buffish-white streaked dusky ; ear-coverts, cheeks and sides 

 of neck buffish-white streaked sepia ; chin and throat white, slightly 

 spotted dusky ; lower -throat and breast pink-buff or cream-white, 

 feathers heavily streaked dusky-brown ; flanks white, some washed 

 fulvous ; under tail-coverts white with brown shafts ; remaining 

 under -parts white ; central tail-feathers sepia or black-brown, 

 edged light or pink-buff, remainder ash-brown edged white ; 

 primaries sepia, 2nd with white, rest with pale brown, shafts ; 

 secondaries sepia (paler on inner webs), tipped and edged white, 

 innermost sepia or black-brown edged tawny or pink-buff ; primary 

 and greater coverts sepia, tipped white ; median and lesser coverts 



Outline of tails of (A) The Siberian Pectoral Sandpiper (Ccdi.dris acuminata), (B) The 

 American Pectoral Sandpiper (C. maculata), to show difference in shape. 



sepia, edges ash-brown sometimes tinged light pink-cinnamon. 

 This plumage is acquired by complete moult ; body-moult com- 

 mences Aug., while wing and tail moult is delayed till winter or 

 early spring. Summer. — The body-feathers (not all scapulars and 

 aj)parently not feathers of back and rump), occasionally central 

 pair of tail-feathers, some innermost secondaries and coverts, some 

 median and lesser coverts are moulted Feb. to June, but not rest 

 of wings or tail-feathers. Crown as winter but feathers edged tawny ; 

 nape heavily streaked black-brown, feathers edged light ochraceous- 

 buff ; mantle and scapulars black-brown, feathers tipped ash- 

 brown and more or less edged at sides light ochraceous-buff and 

 cinnamon, which sometimes completely replaces grey ; remaining 

 upper- and under-parts as winter ; tail-feathers as winter but new 

 central tail-feathers black-brown, edged tawny ; wing as winter 

 but new median and lesser coverts sepia, edged ochraceous and 

 light buff. 



Nestling. — Fore -head white, suffused yellow-buff ; a black 

 median band from base of upper mandible to crown ; crown mottled 

 black and tawny and dotted with irregular tufts of cream ; nape 



