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from the anterior angle of the eye’, a curving stripe of black 
descends along the neck for an inch or more, thence to the: 
shoulders, dark reddish brown, which also tinges the white on 
the side of the neck next to it; under parts, white; above,' 
dark olive ; wings and legs, black. ‘ Size of the turnstone. 
The specimen from which the following description was 
taken, was kindly communicated to me by my friend Mr Ti- 
tian R. Peale, while it was yet in a recent state, and before it 
was prepared for the museum. It was this individual which 
enabled me to ascertain the species figured by Wilson. It was 
shot in the neighbourhood of Philadelphia, on the 7th of May, 
1818. 
Bill, narrow, slender, flexible, subulate, of equal width ; 
nostrils, basal, and linear ; lobes of the toes, thick, narrow, 
and but slightly scalloped. Outer toe, connected to the mid-; 
die one as far as the first joint; inner toe, divided nearly to its 
base ; hind toe, resting on the ground. Bill, black, one inch 
and three-eighths in length ; head above, of an ash grey ; hind 
head, whitish, which colour extends a short distance down the 
neck ; over the eyes, a white stripe, below them, a white spot ; 
throat and Ipwer parts, white ; a line of black passes through 
the eyes, spreads out tov/ards the hind head, and descends 
along the neck ; lower part of the neck, pale ferruginous ; 
back part of the neck, deep ferruginous, which descends on 
each side, and mingles with the plumage of the back and sca- 
pulars, which are of a clove brown, the feathers tip t with whi- 
tish ; wings and tail, dark clove brown, some of the lesser 
coverts having a reddish tinge ; the upper tail feathers, tinged 
with red at their tips, the under feathers, marked with white 
on their inner webs; irides, dark brown; legs and feet, dark 
plumbeous ; claws, long, of a dark horn colour ; hind toe, in- 
dependent of the claw, five sixteenths of an inch long ; the 
tertials, when the wing is closed, extend to within three-eighths 
of an inch of the tip of the primaries ; weight, an ounce and 
three quarters; length, nine inches and a half; breadth, six- 
teen inches. This was a female ; her eggs very small. 
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