. British birds with their nests and eggs . -, dark sooty-black, with a slaty tinge, fleckedon the neck minutely with white dashes, which on the breast become narrowindistinct white bars, increasing in size to the flanks and under tail-coverts; backblack, with white and dusky white tips to the feathers, most conspicuous on thewing-coverts, and forming a saw-tooth pattern on the long tertiaries; lower backwhite; rump and tail white, narrowlj^ barred with sootj^ black; primaries sooty,with white shafts to all, and a good deal of white freckling on the inner ones andthe secondaries; axillaries pu
. British birds with their nests and eggs . -, dark sooty-black, with a slaty tinge, fleckedon the neck minutely with white dashes, which on the breast become narrowindistinct white bars, increasing in size to the flanks and under tail-coverts; backblack, with white and dusky white tips to the feathers, most conspicuous on thewing-coverts, and forming a saw-tooth pattern on the long tertiaries; lower backwhite; rump and tail white, narrowlj^ barred with sootj^ black; primaries sooty,with white shafts to all, and a good deal of white freckling on the inner ones andthe secondaries; axillaries pure white; legs and feet deep purple red. Length12 to 13 inches, closed wing 6i to 6j. Female often, not always, a little thelargest. Adult in winter (Norfolk, ?, 9, 12, 85) much like the corresponding dressof the last species, from which it diffiers in the length of the bill (2^ as comparedwith IJ inches), the conspicuous white ej-ebrow and throat, the whiter under parts. IDH < CC CCUJ cn (M|o: Z< ICOQUJCC Q LU HHO a. CO The Spotted-or Dusky Redshank. 63 and more white spotting on the wing, and the longer tarsus (2I inches as com-pared with i^ inches). Feet and legs dull orange red. Young in autumn {S Barton, Lincolnshire, September, 1880; i Foochow, 25,10, 84) : bill 2A inches. As compared with Common Redshanks in the samestage, the back is much more sooty and more spotted with white, as are also thewings; the whole of the underparts, except the chin, are spotted and barred withdusky. The nestling can be distinguished from the Common Redshanks by its duskiercolour generally, the black crown larger in area, and the legs and bill alreadyproportionately longer. Obs.—The longer bill and tarsus will separate this species from the foregoingat all ages, and confirmatory tests are the small amount of white on the secondaries,which, in this bird, is freckled with dusky at all ages, and which ought to decidethe species on the wing within gunshot; also t
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