iS6 Allen’s naturalist’s librarv. 
Adult Male. — General colour above dark brown, the lower 
back, rump, and upper tail-coverts light cirmamon-rujous ; lesser 
and median wing-coverts like the back, the greater coverts 
darker brown, broadly tipped with white, forming a wing- 
band ; primary-coverts and quills blackish with white fringes 
or tips ; the long primaries white on the inner web till near 
the ends, which are blackish-brown; the first four primaries 
with a white mark along the shaft at a short distance from the 
tip ; the rest of the primaries with a white mark before the 
end of the outer web ; the secondaries blackish, white at the 
base, on the inner web, and along the tip, the white increasing 
on the inner secondaries, and the black decreasing to a spot 
on the outer web, and finally disappearing altogether on the 
interior quills ; the long innermost secondaries like the back, 
the outer ones light ashy-brown, dark brown along the outer 
web, the tip of which is white ; outer tail-feathers chmamon- 
rufous, broadly tipped with white, before which is a sub- 
terminal bar of black ; crown of head dark brown, separated 
from the mantle by a black collar ; forehead white, with a 
black bar behind ; a broad white eyebrow ; under surface of 
body white, with a broad, black collar across the fore-neck, 
uniting to the collar round the hind-neck ; this black collar 
succeeded by a narrower collar of white, and again on the 
chest by a second black collar; bill black; feet pale pinkish 
or pale greyi.sh-ycllow ; iris dark brown ; eyelid orange-red or 
scarlet. Total length, 9 inches ; culmen, o'85 ; wing, S'o ; 
tail, 3'8 ; tarsu,s, i'3. 
Adult Female. — Similar to the male. Total length, 10 inches; 
culmen, 0-95 ; wing, 6-5 ; tail, 3-8 ; tarsus, 1-35. 
■Winter Plumage. — Like the summer plumage, but rather 
browner, and not quite so grey. 
Young Birds. — Resemble the adults, but have sandy-rufous 
edges to the feathers of the upper surface. 
Range in Great Britain. — The Kill-deer Dotterel is said to have 
occurred twice in England. The first one W'as recorded by Dr. 
Sclater in 1862, and was said to have been killed in April, 1857, 
near Christchurch, in Hampshire, on the authority of Mr. J. R. 
Wise. Another specimen was shot by Mr. Jenkinson at Tresco, 
in the Scilly Isles, on the 15th of January, 1885. 
