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move its head and neck in the same peculiar manner. The flight is graceful and rapid, 
and the voice loud and harsh, almost screaming °. 
The nest and eggs have not yet been discovered. 
TRINGOIDES. 
Tringoides, Bp. Sagg. distr. met. An. Vertebr. p. 58 (1831); Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. 
p. 456 (1896). 
Tringoides belongs to the short-legged section of the Tattlers, in which the tarsus is 
about equal to the length of the middle toe and claw, and does not exceed the latter 
in dimensions. The bill is straight, as in Totanus and Heteractitis, from which the 
present genus differs in having the secondaries equal in length to the primaries, the 
distance between the tips of the two series of quills being much less than the length of 
the tarsus. 
Only two species of Tringoides are known—the Common Sandpiper of Europe, 
T'. hypoleuca, and the Spotted Sandpiper of America, 7. macularia. Both breed in 
temperate regions, and migrate far to the south in winter. 
"1. Tringoides macularia. 
The Spotted Tringa, Edwards, Glean. Nat. Hist. ii. p. 189°. 
La Grive d’eau, Briss. Orn. v. p. 255 *. 
Tringa macularia, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 249°. 
Totanus macularius, Licht. Preis-Verz. Mex., Vég. p. 3*; Cab. J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 59”, 
Tringoides macularius, Scl. P.Z. 8. 1857, p. 215°; 1860, p. 2547; 1864, p. 178°; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 
1859, p. 230°; P. Z. S. 1864, p.372"; Dresser, Ibis, 1866, p. 38"; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. 
ix. p. 142; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 809"; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 48™; 
v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 877"; Boucard, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 44°; Salv. Cat. Strickl. 
Coll. p.612°7; Ibis, 1885, p. 194°; 1889, p. 379”; Sumichr. La Nat. v. p. 233”; Nutting, 
Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 379%; Baird, Brewer, and Ridgw. Water-Birds N. Amer. i. 
p. 301”; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 468%; Oates, Cat. Eggs Brit. Mus. ii. 
p. 46, 
Actitis macularia, Ridgw. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. viii. p. 581”; x. p. 5847; Cherrie, Auk, 1892, 
p. 829%; Richm. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 526”; A. O. U. Check-l. N. Amer. Birds, 
2nd ed. p. 97"; Elliot, N. Amer. Shore-Birds, p. 149°°; Underw. Ibis, 1896, p. 449°, 
Tringoides hypoleueus (nec L.), v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 877 *. 
Tringoides sp., Scl. P. Z. 8. 1856, p. 310”. 
Ptil. hiem, Olivaceo-brunnea, rhachidibus nigricantibus indistinctis ; tectricibus alarum et secundariis intimis 
dorso concoloribus ; remigibus sepiariis, primariis intus albo notatis vix albido ad apicem fimbriatis, 
secundariis autem ad basin albis et albo latius terminatis; rectricibus dorso concoloribus, extimis albo 
terminatis, et albo nigroque late sed irregulariter fasciatis ; loris fuscescentibus, fascia parva supralorali 
et palpebris albidis; facie laterali et pectoris lateribus brunneis; gutture et corpore reliquo subtus 
pure albis ; subalaribus albis, harum minimis et tectricibus primariorum nigricantibus ; axillaribus pure 
albis. Long. tota circa 6°6, alee 4:1, caudee 1°8, culm. 1°15, tarsi 0-9, (Descr. avis adultse ex Panajachel, 
Mus. nostr.) 
