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RED-LEGGED SANDPIPER. 
About eleven inches in length : the beak is black 
at its tip and bright red at its base : the irides are 
brown : from the upper mandible of the beak to the 
eye is a white streak : the head, the nape, the top of 
the back, the scapulars, and wing-coverts, are ashy- 
brown tinged with olive, each feather having a lon- 
gitudinal black stripe ; and those of the scapulars 
and greater wing-coverts having several very small 
transverse black rays : the rump is white : the sides 
of the head, the throat, and all the rest of the under 
parts of the plumage, are white ; the centre of each 
feather being dusky brown : the tail-feathers are 
striped with white and black, and tipped with pure 
white ; the white on the four middle feathers being 
tinged with greyish: the legs are of a very bright 
vermilion colour. In the winter the head, the hind 
part of the neck, the top of the back, the scapulars, 
and the wing-coverts, are of a brown ash-colour, 
varied with a deeper tint in the direction of the 
shafts : the throat, the sides of the head, the fore 
part of the neck, and the breast, are greyish white, 
with a fine brown stripe on the shafts : the rump, 
belly, and vent, are pure white : the tail-featiiers 
are transversely barred with white, and broad black 
zigzag stripes : the legs are pale red : the lower half 
of the beak red, the point black. 
The young have a white streak between the upper 
mandible and the eye : the space between the beak 
and the eye brown : the feathers on the top of the 
head are brown, delicately bordered with yellowish : 
the nape is ash-coloured : the back and scapulars are 
brown; all the feathers being laterally bordered with a 
