236 PURPLE OR ROCK SANDPIPER. 
green, dusky towards the point ; iris hazel ; feet 
dull yellowish-green ; claws dusky. The general 
colour of the upper parts is greyish-yellow, each 
feather blackish-brown in the centre ; wing-coverts 
lighter ; quills and their coverts light greyish-brown, 
greenish-black at the end, but with a whitish tip ; 
the inner webs whitish in the greater part of their 
breadth, and beautifully dotted with black in undu- 
lating lines ; the inner secondaries like the feathers 
of the back ; the two middle tail-feathers greyish- 
brown, dark brown glossed with green at the end, 
and slightly margined and tipped with white, the 
rest gradually paler to the outer, margined and 
tipped with white, within which are two lines of 
blackish-brown ; sides of the head, fore neck, and 
sides, light yellowish-red ; the throat paler ; the 
sides of the neck and body spotted with brownish- 
black ; the rest of the lower parts paler and unspot- 
ted. The lower wing-coverts are white, those near 
the edge of the wing black in the centre ; the pri- 
mary-coverts dotted with black, and having a spot 
of the same near the edge. The female has the lower 
parts paler, and the feathers of the upper parts of a 
lighter brown, with an inner margin of broccoli- 
black, and an outer edge of greyish-yellow.”* 
The Purple or Rock Sandpiper, T. maritima, 
Brunnich. — Tringa nigricans, Mont., Linn. Trans. 
— Bccasseau violet , Temm. — Selninger Sandpiper, 
* Ornith. Biog. iii. p. 452. 
