Part 25

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=101 Eastern Little Stint= (Little), Red-necked Sandpiper, Land-snipe, Little Dunlin, Pisobia ruficollis, E. Sib., Jap., China to A., T., N.Z. =vt. Eur. Little Stint. [~101 Erolia ruficollis.]

Mig. flocks c. shores 6.2

Upper ashy-brown mottled darker; wing-quills blackish-brown; centre tail feathers blackish-brown; rest whitish; forehead, under white; faint chestnut band on chest; bill, legs black; brighter in far north; f., sim. Insects, shellfish.

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=102* Sharp-tailed Sandpiper= (Siberian-, Asiatic-Pectoral), Sharp-tailed Stint, Marsh Sandpiper, Marsh Tringa, Heteropygia aurita, (P. aurita, Am.O.U.), Alaska, E. Sib., Japan, Ind, to A., T., N.Z. [~102 Erolia aurita.]

Mig. r. coast 8.5

Upper dark-brown marked gray; crown faint rufous; wing-quills dark-brown; face, under whitish, breast brownish; f., smaller. Small water-animals.

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=103 Curlew-Sandpiper=, Pygmy Curlew, Curlew-Stint, Ancylochilus subarquatus (Erolia ferruginea, Am.O.U.), A., T., N.Z., almost cos. exc. Pac. Is. [~103 Erolia ferruginea.]

Mig. flocks r. shore 8.5

Upper grayish-brown; eyebrow, rump, under white, chest tinged brown; bill 1.5 in., black, arched; brighter in far north; f., sim. Insects, worms.

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=104 Knot=, Knot-Snipe, Tringa canutus, almost cos., A., T., N.Z. [~104 Canutus canutus.]

Mig. r. tidal mud flats 9

Upper grayish-brown; under white; flanks, breast barred grayish-brown; upper base tail white barred black; brighter in far north; f., sim. Insects, worms.

=105 Eastern Knot= (Japanese), Great Sandpiper, T. crassirostris, E. Sib., Jap., Ind. to A. [~105 Canutus magnus.]

Mig. v.r. shore 11.5

Crown, neck, brownish-gray; back, wings brown; rump white; tail brownish-gray; breast dark-brown marked white; abdomen white; bill olive, 1-3/4 in.; brighter in far north; f., sim. Insects, worms.

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=106* Australian Snipe= (Japanese, Latham), Jack Snipe, Bleater, Long-bill, Gallinago australis, Jap., Formosa, to A., T., N.Z. =vt. Eur. Snipe.

Mig. c. swamps 9.5

Richly mottled; crown blackish with buff line along centre; face, chin buff; breast, washed reddish-brown; brown bars on flanks; back mottled brownish-black; under wings finely barred black, white; chestnut band on tail; two black lines on face; bill 2.7 in.; f., sim. Insects, worms.

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=107* Australian-Painted Snipe=, Australian Rhynchaea, Rostratula australis, A.

Mig. v.r. grassy, bush 9.5

Beautiful mottled dotted; crown dark-brown, with buff line; throat, chest dark, chin lighter; wing brown, spotted black, white, buff; abdomen white; long straight bill 1.7 in.; m., duller, smaller. Insects, worms.

F. 37. PARRIDAE (1), PARRA, Jacana, Water-Pheasant, 11 sp.--2(1)A., 3(2)O., 3(3)E., 1(0)Nc., 4(3)Nl.