LONG-LEGGED SANDPIPER. 
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and the upper tail-coverts white, regularly banded with black. 
The throat is whitish, obsoletely dotted with blackish; the whole 
under surface is then, including the tail-coverts, white, each fea¬ 
ther being banded with blackish, and one of the bands terminal. 
The wings are five and a half inches long; all the coverts plain 
dusky with lighter margins; the under coverts are marbled with 
blackish and whitish: the primaries are blackish, the first with a 
white shaft; the secondaries are pale dusky, edged with whitish. 
The tail is gray, even, and two inches long, the two middle 
feathers are acute, projecting beyond the others the length of 
their points; the outer on each side is also somewhat longer than 
the others: all are pale dusky with white shafts, the white spread¬ 
ing somewhat along the middle, but particularly at the base, 
where all the feathers but the middle ones are white, as well 
as the two outer also on the greater part of their inner vane. 
The feet are black, and the legs very long: the naked space on 
the tibia one inch and a quarter: the tarsus one and three quarters 
long: the middle toe is very nearly one inch without the nail, and 
about as much over an inch including it: all the front toes are 
half-webbed, that is with a membrane connecting them at base. 
