WOOD SANDPIPER. 
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lesser wing coverts are without the spots. Primaries, dusky, 
the first with the white shaft, and all narrowly edged with 
white at the tips except the first; secondaries, dusky, mar¬ 
gined with yellowish white; tertiaries, dusky, with the slight 
tints of purple and green, and the bright rufous spots on 
the margins. Tail, white, broadly barred with dusky; the 
outer feathers having their inner webs nearly pure white; 
upper tail coverts, white, with small dusky shaft lines, and 
spots of the same on the tips of some of them. Legs and 
toes, pale yellow, tinged with greenish grey. 
The adult birds moult in August, the young later, and 
again in April return to, or arrive at, the summer plumage. 
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