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RED-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 



nous; tail coverts white, elegantly barred with black; wings plain 

 dusky, black towards the extremity; the greater coverts tipt with 

 white ; shafts of the primaries white ; tail pale ashy olive, finely 

 edged with white, the two middle feathers somewhat the longest; 

 belly and vent white, the latter marked with small arrow-heads of 

 black; legs and feet black; toes bordered with a narrow mem- 

 brane; eye small and black. 



In some specimens, both of males and females, the red on the 

 breast was much paler, in others it descended as far as the thighs. 

 Both sexes seemed nearly alike. 



