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Limicola platyrhynchci, Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 3 i 545 
(1876); B. O. U. List Brit. B. p. 167 (1883); Saunders, 
ed. Yarrell’s Brit. B. iii. p. 362 (1883) ; id. Man. Brit. B. 
p. 563 (1889); Lilford, Col. Fig. Brit. B. part xxiv. 
(1893). 
Adult Male in Winter Plumage. — General colour above light ashy- 
grey, somewhat paler on the edges of the feathers, which have 
dusky-brown centres ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 
blackish, with slight remains of sandy-buff fringes ; sides of 
rump and lateral upper tail-coverts white i wing-coverts rather 
darker than the back, the marginal ones dark brown, the 
median series blackish in the centre with hoary-white margins ; 
the greater series dusky-blackish, edged with hoary-grey, in- 
clining to white at the end.s, and forming a narrow band across 
the wing ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts black tipped with 
white, the latter broadly; quills black, paler brown on the 
inner webs of the primaries, excepting at the tips, which are 
black ; secondaries merely fringed with white near the ends, 
and with a little white towards the base of the inner web, the 
inner secondaries ashy like the back, the shafts of all the 
quills white or whity-brown ; centre tail-feathers blackish like 
the upper tail-coverts, the rest ashy-brown with white shafts 
and white fringes ; crown of head like the back , the lores 
dusky, surmounted by a broad white streak which is continued 
into a narrow eyebrow ; sides of face white with a few tiny 
streaks of dusky-brown ; ear-coverts uniform dusky-brown ; 
under surface of body white with a few streaks of dusky-brown 
on the lower throat and sides of breast ; under wing-coverts 
and axillaries white, the marginal-coverts mottled with dusky 
bases ; lower primary-coverts ashy ; bill dusky black ; legs and 
feet slaty-black ; iris dark brown. 'I'otal length, 6-5 inches ; 
culmen, i'3; wing, 4 't ; tail, i’6; tarsus, 0 8. 
Adult Male in Breeding Plumage. — General colour above black, 
slightly varied with rufous edgings to the feathers, some of 
those of the mantle, scapulars, inner greater coverts, and 
inner secondaries having sandy-buff margins, the black form- 
ing large sub-terminal spots ; crown of the head black, with a 
sandy-buff lateral stripe ; lores black ; sides of face rufescent, 
thickly spotted with dusky-black like the sides of the neck ; the 
