Plate CCCCXXVII. Fig. 2. Female.
Bill vermilion, paler toward the end; feet blood-red; plumage
chocolate-brown, darker and tinged with bluish-grey on the head, neck,
and breast; under surface of quills light brownish-grey, with the
shafts whitish; many of the wing-coverts narrowly tipped with
brownish-white.
_Female_, 20; wing 11; bill 3-2/12.
Coast of California, and along the shores of the North Pacific,
southward and northward. Rather common. Migratory.
Townsend's Oyster-catcher, Hæmatopus Townsendi, Aud. Orn.
Biog. v. v. p. 247.