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mostly with lighter edges, those of back, rump and upper tail- 

 coverts tipped ashy -white, tail-coverts mostly with a subterminal 

 darker grey border ; white eye-stripe from lores to behind eye, 

 where more or less streaked ash-grey ; loral streak and sides of 

 neck dark ash-grey ; ear-coverts and cheeks whitish, narrowly 

 streaked dark ash-grey ; chin and throat white ; breast white 

 more or less suffused pale ash-grey ; sides of breast and flanks more 



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The Grey-rumped Sandpiper (Tringa incana brevipes). 



or less uniform dark ash-grey, intermixed with some white ; axil- 

 laries and under wing-coverts dark ash-grey tipped white ; remain- 

 ing under -parts white ; tail-feathers dark ash-grey faintly bordered 

 white ; primaries black-brown or sepia, paler on inner webs, inner 

 ones faintly tipped white ; secondaries dark ash-grey faintly 

 bordered white and more or less white towards base of inner webs 

 as are inner primaries ; innermost secondaries and coverts as long 

 scapulars ; primary-coverts black-brown or sepia, inner ones 

 narrowly edged white ; wing-coverts as mantle but greater coverts 

 edged light buff or white. This plumage is acquired by complete 

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

 tail, some innermost secondaries and coverts, some median and 

 lesser coverts are moulted Feb. to May bat not rest of wings. 

 Upper -parts as winter but feathers narrowly edged light buff or 

 white, upper tail-coverts irregularly barred white ; sides of neck 

 white narrowly streaked ash-grey ; breast white, feathers with 

 irregular wavy bars of dark ash-grey, sides of breast as upper - 

 parts but often barred buff or white ; sides of belly and flanks white 

 more or less barred dark ash-grey and intermixed with white 

 feathers ; remaining under -parts as winter ; tail and wing as winter 

 but innermost secondaries and coverts and new wing-coverts tipped 

 light buff or white. 



Juvenile. — Like adult winter but feathers of upper -parts notched 

 light buff or white, some feathers of mantle and scapulars notched 

 darker grey as well, upper tail-coverts tipped and irregularly barred 

 light buff or white ; cheeks light buff or white narrowly streaked or 

 spotted dusky ; upper -breast suffused dark ash-grey, feathers 

 usually indistinctly spotted and freckled dusky and faintly tipped 

 buff ; sides of neck and sides of body as adult but feathers marked, 

 notched, or faintly tipped light buff or white ; flanks white more 

 or less suffused pale ash-grey and irregularly barred same ; rest of 

 body -plumage as adult winter ; tail-feathers as adult winter but 

 tipped light buff or white, central ones usually with notches or 



