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PR^COCIAL GRALLATORES — LIMICOL^. 



parts barred, with brownish dusky; axillars and lining of the wing deep cinnamon-ochre. 

 Wing, 8.5U-9.00 ; cuhnen, 3.50-5.00 ; tarsus, 2.75-3.00 ; middle toe, 1.40. Hah. North 

 America. 

 2. L. lapponica. Upper tail-coverts white, spotted with dusky ; axillars and lining of wing 

 white, irregularly marked witli dusky, hi summer, head and lower parts cinnamon-color. 



L, fedoa. 



In winter, head and lower parts whitish, the Iiead and neck streaked, the breast and sides 

 irregularly barred with grayish brown. Young, like winter adult, but plumage gen- 

 erally washed with dull light clay-color, the throat and jugulum unstreaked. 

 a. Lapponica. Rump white, marked with elliptical, acuminate streaks of dusky. Wing, 

 8.25-8.50 ; culmen, 2.95-3.80 ; tarsus, 2.00-2.15 ; middle toe, 1.10-1.20. Hah. Palsearctic 

 Region. 



Outer tail-feather of L. lapponica 

 novce-zealandice. 



Outer tail-feather of L. fcdoa. 



Outer tail-feather of L. hwmastica. 



/3. Novce-zealandice. Rump dusky, the feathers bordered with whitish. Wing, 8.25-9.15 ; 

 culmen, 3.15-3.55; tarsus, 2.00-2.20; middle toe, 1.10-1.20. Hah. Pacific Islands and 

 coasts, from Australia to Alaska. 

 b. Tail black, with white base and tip, but without bars. 



