368 Dr. A. Hall on the Mammals and Birds 



Ventral aspect. Chin wliite ; throat and breast cinereous white 

 streaked with bhickish brown ; flanks, tail coverts and vent white 

 with blackish brown streaks in the centre of the feathers ; belly 

 black, wi h white edgings to the feathers. 



1st primary longest; the others graduated; the long scapulars 

 which have a ragged appearance, longer than the 5th but shorter 

 than the 4th primary. Length 9 inches; alar expanse 14 inches ; 

 length of the bill 1 J inch. Described from a male in its nuptial 

 dress. 



T.pectoralis. Pectoral Sandpiper. 

 Pelidna pectoralis of Say ! 



v.s.p. Bill black at the tip, reddish yellow at the base ; legs 

 and feet olivaceois ; irides dark hazel, almost black ; eggs un- 

 known. 



Dorsal aspect. Crown of head, interscapulary region, and 

 rump black, with ferruginous tips and edgings; nape of neck 

 dusky streaked with brown ; scapulars black margined with fer- 

 ruginous and tipped with white on the outer vanes only ; long 

 scapulars black edged with ferruginous on both vanes ; great and 

 small wing coverts dusky, the latter tipped with pale ferruginous, 

 the former, with ferruginous on both vanes, except the extremity 

 of the outer vane where it changes to white ; tail with the lateral 

 feathers dusky tipped with brownish white ; the centre feathers 

 jet black margined with ferruginous ; lateral tail coverts white 

 spotted with blackish on the outer vanes ; quills plain clove 

 brown; shaft of 1st primary white ; the shafts of all the others 

 brown; streak from the nostrils to and around the eye white; 

 another from the rictus to the eye umber brown. 



Ventral aspect. Chin white ; cheeks, sides of throat, throat 

 and breast brownish white with dusky streaks ; flanks, axillaries, 

 vent and tail coverts white. 



1st primary longest ; the others graduated ; long scapulars 

 shorter than the 4th, longer than the 5th. Length 8j- inches ; 

 alar expanse 13 inches ; length of bill about 1 inch and about a 

 line; length of tarsus 1 inch; length of middle toe with the nail 

 1 inch, 1 line. The winter dress of this bird is cinereous brown 

 with a white ventral aspect. 



T. rufescens. Buflf-breasted Sandpiper. 

 Tringiies rufescens. Baird I 

 D.c. " Bill blackish, scarcely the length of the head, nearly 



