594 A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



scapulars, back, rump and upper tail-coverts blackish olive -brown 

 broadly edged sandy or pink-buff ; ear -coverts, cheeks and sides 

 of neck pink-buff ; chin, throat and remaining under -parts pink- 

 buff, feathers spotted and edged white (sides of breast spotted 

 sepia), belly, vent and under tail-coverts usually light buff ; axil- 

 laries white ; under wing-coverts white, under primary-coverts 

 banded subterminally and irregularly marked with black ; tail- 

 feathers ash-brown, tipped buff, and bordered with sepia and usually 

 irregularly mottled same, central ones olive-brown, tipped buff ; 

 primaries olive-brown, becoming blackish toward tips which are 



The Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis). Two outer primaries. 



cream-coloured, inner feathers with outer webs slightly speckled 

 brown, inner webs white with irregular wavy bars and freckles of 

 dark brown ; secondaries as inner primaries but inner webs more 

 boldly marked ; innermost secondaries and coverts blackish olive- 

 brown, edged sandy or pink-buff ; primary-coverts olive-brown, 

 tipped black-brown and narrowly edged cream ; greater coverts 

 olive -brown freckled on inner webs and with subterminal bars of 

 black-brown and tipped sandy-buff ; median coverts pink-buff 

 shading to sandy-brown towards base with irregular V- or Y-shaped 

 or semi-circular black-brown markings ; lesser coverts black-brown 

 edged sandy-buff. This plumage is acquired by complete moult in 

 autumn (very few specimens moulting remiges were examined). 

 N.B. — One Buenos Ayres 20/2/76 with 2nd primary in quill and 

 moulting body -feat hers, tail new. Summer. — The body-feathers 

 (not all scapulars), sometimes tail-feathers, some innermost second- 

 aries and coverts and apparently some median and lesser coverts 

 but not rest of wings are moulted in spring. Coloration as winter. 

 N.B. — One June had 2nd primary in quill and was in body-moult. 



Nestling. — (Not examined.) 



Juvenile. Male and female. — Crown sepia, feathers narrowly 

 edged light buff ; nape sandy-buff spotted sepia ; mantle black- 

 brown, feathers edged cream-white ; scapulars black-brown, longer 

 ones olive -brown edged cream or buff ; back, rump and upper tail- 

 coverts as adult ; sides of neck sandy-buff minutely spotted dusky ; 

 remaining under-parts as adult ; tail as adult but usually without 

 brown speckling ; wing as adult but inner webs of primaries and 

 secondaries minutely and closely speckled and irregularly barred 

 olive-brown, (in adult barrings and specklings are larger and further 

 apart), innermost secondaries oh ve -brown with lighter edges and 



