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Stilt Plover (Himantopsus candidus). 
AUahballah. 
Length 18 inches ; beak 2| inches ; legs 9| inches. Long grayish-white neck ; 
back and wings metallic black ; breast white ; legs pink ; iris red ; bill 
black. 
{Stephanihyx coronata.) 
Boodwain. 
Legs and bill red ; iris yellow. 
Plover {Oxyechus tricollaris). 
Leferuke ; Gulis ; sea-shore, Berbera. 
Legs dull yellow ; eyelids red. 
Green Sandpiper {Helodromas ochropus). 
Gulis ; Sinnadogho. 
Length of skin, 10^ inches. Iris hazel ; long bill and legs black ; breast and 
upper tail-coverts white ; throat white speckled with gray ; back and 
wings dull green. 
Sanderling {Ccdidris arenaria). 
Berbera. 
Iris brown ; upper parts pale gray with darker bars ; under parts white. 
Length 7 inches. 
Common Sandpiper (Aditus hypolemeus). 
Sinnadogho. 
Length 7 inches. Back gray ; breast white ; iris brown. 
Curlew (Nunienius arquata). 
Along the sea-shore in hundreds at Berbera. 
Long curved beak ; colour gray, brown, and white. 
Common Snipe {Scolopax ccelestis). 
Wells of Farfanyer. 
Upper parts brown and buff ; under parts white ; fourteen feathers in tail. 
Snipe {Scolopax or Terekia cinerm). 
Sea-shore, Berbera. 
Length lOi inches. Tail of fourteen feathers. 
Little Stint {Tringa minuta). 
Sea-shore, Berbera. 
Winter plumage : Above brown-gray ; throat, neck, breast, and abdomen 
white ; tail feathers ash gray edged with white. Summer plumage : 
Upper parts yellow-red. Length 5 inches. 
The Dunlin {Pelidna alpina). 
Sea-shore, Berbera, 
Upper parts gray ; upper breast and throat dull white with dark stripes ; 
lower breast black ; belly white. Length 8 inches. 
