. Les oiseaux britanniques avec leurs nids et leurs œufs . en hiver—aussi sur les rives de l'OFE. Amérique du Nord, jusqu'à environ lat. 30°, et a brigané aux Bermudas.Je dois saisir cette occasion de démurder à M. Howard Saunders déclaration(Man. B.B. p. 579) qu'en Islande, entre autres endroits, c'est l'oiseau de son genre. Dans le nord de l'Islande, six couples de Dunlins se batteront avec, à chacun des Sandpiper pourpre. Description de l'adulte en été: bill presque noir, jaune-brun à la base; iris noisette; les parties supérieures noir soyeux avec des marges claires sur les plumes, châtaigne de la couronne, gris sur le b

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. British birds with their nests and eggs . in winter—also on the shores ofE. North America, down to about lat. 30°, and has straggled to the Bermudas.I must take this opportunity of demurring to Mr. Howard Saunders statement(Man. B.B. p. 579) that in Iceland, amongst other places, it is the mostabundant bird of its genus. In Northern Iceland six pairs of Dunlins will bemet with, to every one of the Purple Sandpiper. Description of adult in summer: bill nearly black, yellow-brown at base;iris hazel; upper parts sooty black with light margins to the feathers, chestnuton the crown, grey on the back of the neck, and a mixture of chestnut, buflF, and white on the shoulders ; wing feathers sooty with white margins, most con-spicuous on the secondaries, some of which are almost entirely white; centraltail-feathers dusky, the rest grey; throat dirty white, faintly and minutelyspeckled with dusky; neck, sides of head, chest and flanks, dusky-brown, streakedwith black on the throat, and barred with the same on the breast and flanks ;. UJ s 2 D CO •-o CCUJCL a.Qz< UJ _1 CL q:: D a. DHD< The Purple Sandpiper. ^37 belly white; legs and feet dusky with a yellow tinge. Length 8i inches:(females sometimes 9), closed wing 4f to aS much as Sj i^ females (^ E Fin-mark, Collett; S Kostin Schar, Novaya Zemlya, 18, 7, 95; 9, shot off foureggs, Vathla Heithi, Iceland, 27, 6, 85). Adults in winter lose the chestnut and white margins to the feathers of thetipper parts, which are then uniformly sooty with slightly paler margins of dullgrey, and have a beautiful purple gloss which is little seen in the summerdress; sides of head, neck, and breast, dark grey; throat and belly white. Young birds in autumn are much like adults in winter, but have some whitemargins to the scapular feathers, and more conspicuous white edges to the wingcoverts. Nestlings: forehead rusty; crown black, mottled with fawn and white, as isalso the back; back of neck and under parts nearly white. Obs.: the Pur

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