THE WOOD -SANDPIPER. 



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brown ; from top of lores to nape a white eye -stripe, streaked sooty- 

 brown behind eye ; from lores to eye a sooty-brown streak ; ear- 

 co verts sooty-brown, feathers edged white ; sides of neck ashy- 

 white narrowly streaked sepia ; chin and upper -throat white ; 

 cheeks and lower -throat white streaked and spotted sepia ; feathers 

 of upper-breast and sides of body light drab with sepia shafts and 

 more or less tipped white ; flanks white with some irregular marks 

 and bars of sepia ; belly and vent white ; under tail-coverts white 

 with central streaks or irregular barrings of sepia ; axillaries barred 

 white and sepia ; under wing-coverts white irregularly marked 

 sepia ; under lesser coverts sepia broadly edged white ; tail 

 feathers : central pair sepia barred black-brown or black and 



Half the tails of adults of— A. The Solitary Sandpiper (Trivga s. solitaria). B. The Wood- 

 Sandpiper (T. glareola). C. The Green Sandpiper (T. ochropus). 



notched and tipped white, others barred white and sepia, outer ones 

 with inner webs more or less white ; primaries and their coverts 

 black-brown or sepia, 2nd primary with shaft white, 8th and 

 succeeding narrowly edged white at tip ; secondaries sepia, tipped 

 and bordered white, innermost and coverts as scapulars ; greater 

 and median coverts sooty-brown, tipped white and more or less 

 notched white and black-brown ; lesser coverts black-brown faintly 

 edged white. This plumage is acquired by complete moult commen- 

 cing in July with body-feathers, while birds moulting remiges occur 

 from Sept. to March. N.B. — Some Feb. and March specimens were 

 acquiring summer -plumage on body and had 2nd primary in quill. 

 Summer. — The body -feathers, sometimes tail-feathers, innermost 

 secondaries and coverts, usually most median and some lesser 

 coverts are moulted Jan. to May but apparently not rest of wings 

 (occasional contemporaneous primary-moult being considered as 

 delayed completion of moult to winter plumage). As winter but 

 crown broadly streaked black-brown, feathers broadly edged white 

 or light buff ; nape as crown but usually more narrowly streaked ; 

 mantle and scapulars black or black-brown, feathers broadly edged 



