. A practical handbook of British birds . opax leucophcea Latham, Index Orn., 11, p. 719 (1790— Habitat inEuropa, frequens in Anglia ). Fedoa pectoralis Stephens, Shaws Gen. Zool., xii, 1, p. 79 (1824—Eng-land).Limosa lapponica (Linnaeus), Yarrell, in, p. 494 ; Saunders, p. 623. Description.—Adult male and female. Winter.—Crown streakedash-brown, feathers edged ash-white or cream ; nape same butstreaks narrower and paler ; mantle and scapulars ash-brown,feathers with sepia shafts, some shaded sepia centrally, mostly witha mouse-grey bloom, scapulars and some mantle feathers edged palebuff or c
. A practical handbook of British birds . opax leucophcea Latham, Index Orn., 11, p. 719 (1790— Habitat inEuropa, frequens in Anglia ). Fedoa pectoralis Stephens, Shaws Gen. Zool., xii, 1, p. 79 (1824—Eng-land).Limosa lapponica (Linnaeus), Yarrell, in, p. 494 ; Saunders, p. 623. Description.—Adult male and female. Winter.—Crown streakedash-brown, feathers edged ash-white or cream ; nape same butstreaks narrower and paler ; mantle and scapulars ash-brown,feathers with sepia shafts, some shaded sepia centrally, mostly witha mouse-grey bloom, scapulars and some mantle feathers edged palebuff or cream ; back and rump white, many feathers with irregularstreaks or markings of sepia more or less concealed (amount ofstreaking varies individually) ; upper tail-coverts white barredsepia ; lores and cheeks white, streaked and spotted ash-brown ;eye-stripe white, faintly spotted ash-brown ; chin and throatwhite ; sides of neck and fore-neck white or pale drab narrowlystreaked ash-brown (streaks on fore-neck sometimes scarcely per. >- -v4xv ^\ The Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa I. lapponica). ceptible); breast more or less clouded palest drab (sometimes withone or two ash-brown bars) ; sides of breast ash-brown, featherswith narrow sepia shaft-streaks ; sides of belly, flanks and undertail-coverts white, some feathers irregularly barred and markedsepia ; belly and vent white ; axillaries white, barred, marked orstreaked ash-brown or sepia; under wing-coverts same but mark-ings more or less concealed, under primary-coverts more or lessshaded pale ash-brown ; tail-feathers ash-brown or sepia, edged,mottled and more or less irregularly barred white (sometimesregularly barred but pattern varies individually) ; primaries sepiaor black-brown with white shafts, paler on inner webs which arefreckled or margined white for about three-quarters of their lengthfrom base, inner ones tipped and narrowly edged white on innerwebs ; secondaries sepia or ash-brown paler on inner webs, tippe
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