. A history of British birds . spots ;axillary plumes pure white; under tail-coverts barred blackand white ; legs and toes claret colour, paler at the joints;claws black. The sexes do not diifer much in plumage, but the femalesare rather larger than the males, and in the breedingdress the chin is often white, and the under parts are ofa less uniform black. An adult male measured in its wholelength twelve inches and a half; from the carpal joint tothe end of the wing, six inches and a half; the first quill-feather the longest in the wing. In young birds of the year the plumage on the upper sur-
. A history of British birds . spots ;axillary plumes pure white; under tail-coverts barred blackand white ; legs and toes claret colour, paler at the joints;claws black. The sexes do not diifer much in plumage, but the femalesare rather larger than the males, and in the breedingdress the chin is often white, and the under parts are ofa less uniform black. An adult male measured in its wholelength twelve inches and a half; from the carpal joint tothe end of the wing, six inches and a half; the first quill-feather the longest in the wing. In young birds of the year the plumage on the upper sur-face of the body is tinged with brown, and the white colourof the under surface of the body is clouded with ash-grey ;the legs orange-yellow. In the nestling the down of the forehead and under partsis more tinged with buff than in the Common Kedshank ; theblack on the crown is more extended, and the black streakthrough each eye unites at the nape, the bill being propor-tionately longer. 480 LIMICOL^. SCOLOPACID^. ^1*^ TOTANUS FLAVIPES (Gmeliii *).THE YELLOW-SHANKED SANDPIPER. Toianus jiavipes. The first recorded British example of this American Sand-piper was killed at Misson, in Nottinghamshire, about twoand a half miles north-east of Bawtry, on the borders ofLincolnshire, by one of a small party of men, residing atMisson, who got their living by shooting wild-fowl, duringthe season, which they sent to Doncaster for sale. Thisbird passed into the hands of the late Mr. Hugh Reid, ofDoncaster, who, considering it to be a Wood Sandpiper,and a rare species, caused it to be carefully preserved by hisown assistant, and sold it afterwards to the then Sir WilliamMilner, Bart., by whom it was brought to London in thespring of 1855, and appropriated to the Authors use in this* Scohpax Jlaripes, Graelin, Sjst. Nat. i. y. 059 (1788). YELLOW-SHANKED SANDPIPER. 481 work. The figure and description here given were takenfrom this specimen, which is now in the Leeds Museum. Anot
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