SPOTTED SANDPIPERa 
coloured at it's base: the upper mandible i§ 
channelled on each side. The nostrils are 
long. It has a white line above the eye. The 
head, upper side of the neck, back, rump, and 
covert-feathers of the wings, are of a brown- 
ish colour^ a little inclining to an olive-green, 
having a small glossiness on the wings. The 
middle feathers of the tall, and the lesser quills 
next the back, are of the same browhish colour. 
The head is spotted with small longlsh dusky 
spots down the shafts of it's feathers : on the 
"neck they increase to the back, where they are 
larger. The rump is without spots. The 
feathers on the shoulders and wings are marked 
with dusky spots transversely, the form of 
which will be best understood by the figurcc 
The greater quills are dusky, some of the 
shorter ones of them having white tips. The 
tow of covert-feathers, next above these, are 
also dusky, with white tips, which form two 
oblique lines of white across the wing. The 
ridge and inner coverts of the wing are like- 
wise white ; except a regular dusky line drawn 
transversely through them. The insides of 
the quills are ash-coloured, with w-hitish hot- 
'toms ; except three or four of the outer quillsj 
>vhich 
