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both sides, a few rusty spots, which subsequently perhaps become 

 obsolete, being visible below. A biack circular patch surrounds 

 the eye and stretches down over the orifice of the ear. The entire 

 back and the long feathers of the scapulars ashy-blue, and almost 

 unspotted; each feather has narrow whitish edges with here and 

 there a black feather interspersed. Quills black with whitish 

 shafts, the edges of the coverts being whitish or greyish-yellow. 

 The innerraost coverts of the secondaries are broadly margined 

 with white, whereby a white transverse band of considerable breadth 

 appears upon the closed wings. The posterior portion of the back 

 and rump browny black, the feathers having faint rusty edges; the 

 rectrices, too, are browny black with greyish edges. Under plumage 

 white with a faint reddish tinge, in particular on the fore part of 

 the neck. Sides of the breast light bluish-grey, blending with the 

 colour of the back. Feet (in a dry state) greenish-grey, with lobes 

 of the same colour. 



Adult in autumn plumage (Chris ti aniafj ord, October 1855). 

 Crown of the head entirely black, with a few spots of rusty 

 yellow. The black patch on the neck extends over the entire scap- 

 ulary region and is closely speckled with yellowish-brown dots. 

 Head as in winter dress; the ashy blue of the back sprinkled with 

 a number of black feathers. Under plumage and other parts as 

 in winter dress. 



Totanus glottis, Lin. 

 Breeds scattered in most of the districts of Finmark and on 

 the fells of the south. At Bosekop, in Alten (70°), in 1872, the 

 young birds were half grown by the 14th July, the scapulars and 

 sides of the breast being covered with feathers. (Tarsus 39 mm, 

 culmen 23, middle toe 31 + 5 mm). Readily distinguished from the 

 other species of Totanus by the upward direction of the lower 

 mandible, a peculiarity perceptible even in young just liatched. 

 The dress at a somewhat later stage exhibits no material differ- 

 ence from that of the young on emerging from the shell. 1 



1 Dress of young in down described in „Nyt Mag. f. Naturv." Vol. 18, p. 205. 



