THE BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 
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the ends and having a black sub-terminal bar, ‘he long imm 
secondaries blackish, with broad sandy-buff edp; 
feathers blackish-brown, the remainder pale a?hy-brow n tippea 
with white, before which is a broad sub-lerm.nal bar of black 
the outer feathers with other interrupted bars of *^'ack , crown 
of head like the back, but the black markings snialler than on 
the latter; base of forehead, lores, a narrow eyebrow, sides of 
face, and under surface of body '^^fescent buff, the feathe 
slightly obscured by whitish margins ; the chin wh'tish , s'd 
of upper breast spotted with black, the centres of the feathers 
streaked and spotted with black; under 
the inner ones beautiful rufescent buff; ’ '^ite 
nrimarv coverts marbled with black ; quills below white, 
marbled with black along the inner web ; bill dull olive-green 
dusky towards the point ; feet dull yellowish-green, clavvs 
dusky; iris hazel. Total length, 8 inches; culmen, 095, 
wing. S' I ; tail, 2-4; tarsus, 1-2. 
Adult Female.— Similar to the male in colour, but the black 
marblings on the inner web of the primaries not so distinct. 
Total length, rS inches ; wing, 5. 
Youue Birds.— Differ from the adults in having whitish edgings 
to tirfeTthers of the upper-surface ; the lower back rump 
and upper tail-coverts with dark sandy-buff margins , the bla 
LtSLl bar oa the p,imar,-co,em aad 
SO distinct, and the secondaries nearly uniforaa ashy-brown 
with white towards the base of the inner web, but only a little 
black marbling near the ends ; the black spots on the sides of 
the breast very minute, and the black rnarbling on the lower 
primary-coverts and inner webs of quills much less distinct 
than in the adults. 
Characters.-The Buff-breasted Sandpiper may always be 
distinguished by the black freckling on the inner webs of the 
Great Britain.— About sixteen authentic pccurrences 
of the Buff-breasted Sandjiiper in England are adnntted by Mr. 
Howard Saunders. Nearly all of them have taken place in 
autumn with the exception of a male bird said to have been 
killed at Formby, in Lancashire, in May, 1829; while the only 
instance of the occurrence of the bird in Europe, outside the 
