. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 234 XARID^. bars; remaining quills plain grey; under wing-coverts greyish: bill, tarsi, and toes black, with a reddish tinge; iris white. Total length 14-5 inches, culmen 1'8, wing 11-8, tail 4*8, tarsus 1'65, middle toe with claw 1*5. In less mature birds the 1st quill has a black subterminal bar, and the black of the inner web extends inwards nearly to the shaft about halfway up. The female is slightly smaller, but otherwise like the male. Young. Similar, but the feathers of the upper surface slightly tipped and spotted with clove-brown; quills
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 234 XARID^. bars; remaining quills plain grey; under wing-coverts greyish: bill, tarsi, and toes black, with a reddish tinge; iris white. Total length 14-5 inches, culmen 1'8, wing 11-8, tail 4*8, tarsus 1'65, middle toe with claw 1*5. In less mature birds the 1st quill has a black subterminal bar, and the black of the inner web extends inwards nearly to the shaft about halfway up. The female is slightly smaller, but otherwise like the male. Young. Similar, but the feathers of the upper surface slightly tipped and spotted with clove-brown; quills with more dark colour, reaching completely to the shafts on the inner webs of the 1st and 2nd {see cut beloiv); tail with the merest trace of a brown bar, which is soon lost: bill yellow, horn-colour anteriorly ; tarsi and toes dull Lams bullcri, juv. Fledgling (coll. Hon. W. llothschUd). Feathers of the upper surface edged with warm butF; tail without any decided band, but merely marked with irregular narrow wavy bars on a buff ground on the terminal half of the rectrices (much as in a Common Snipe). Hah. New Zealand, chiefly on the inland lakes and rivers, but descending the latter to their estuaries and occurring on the coast. This species appears to bo largely insectivorous; its wing-pattern and the tail-pattern of the young are peculiar, and it seems to have no very close allies. [. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology. [Birds]. London
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