RINGED DOTTEREL. 301 
Around the mandible, cheeks and auriculars, 
deep black ; on the forehead a band of white, which 
reaches each anterior angle of the eye ; and, above 
that, a broad band of black passing from eye to eye ; 
the remainder of the head and nape hair-brown, a 
pale streak sometimes passing over or behind each 
eye. The chin and throat, passing in a collar around 
the neck, pure white ; succeeding this is a gorget of 
deep black, on the breast about an inch in breadth, 
and passing entirely round the white in a narrow 
circle, is blended into a chaste and uniform hair- 
brown, investing all the upper parts, except the quills 
and tail. The secondaries are tipped with white, 
forming a bar across, and some of the last quills are 
edged with the same colour on their outer webs. 
The quills are deep clove-brown, a portion of the 
shafts, about an inch from the tips white ; the tail 
is hair-brown, with an apical nearly black clouded 
hand ; the centre feathers have a very slight mark 
of white at the end; the others, to the second from 
the outside, are broadly tipped with white, the se- 
cond has the outer web entirely white, and the ex- 
terior is altogether of that colour. The lower parts, 
below the pectoral gorget, are pure white ; the hill 
is black at the tip ; the base, with the legs and feet, 
rich gallstone-yellow. The above description is taken 
from a bird killed in December, and although the 
hill and legs, with the black parts of the plumage, 
may become more brilliant and intense during in- 
cubation, little apparent seasonal change takes place. 
In the young of the first plumage, there is no ap- 
