152 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Genus MICROPALAMA Baird. (Page 149, pi. XLIII., fig. 4.) 



Species. 



Summer adult : Ui^per parts varied with black, pale gray, and light buff, the 

 first prevailing on back and scapulars; wing-coverts grayish, margined with paler; 

 upper tail-coverts white, marked with dusky streaks and bars ; top of head duskj", 

 streaked with whitish ; ear-coverts and patch on each side of occiput, light rusty; 

 streak of dusky from eye to corner of mouth ; rest of head, with neck, dull white, 

 streaked with dusky, the lower parts whitish barred with dusk3\ Winter plumage : 

 Upper parts uniform ash-gray, except tail-coverts, wings, and tail, which are as in 

 summer ; superciliary stripe and lower pai"ts white, the chest, sides of neck, and 

 lower tail-coverts streaked with grayish. Young: Back and scapulars dusky, all 

 the feathers bordered with pale buff or buffy whitish ; wing-coverts bordered with 

 pale buff and white ; upper tail-coverts nearly immaculate white ; lower parts 

 soiled white, the chest and sides more or less strongl}^ washed with buff, and indis- 

 tinctly streaked with grayish. Length 7.50-9.25, wing 5.00-5.30, culmen 1.55-1.75, 

 tarsus 1.55-1.70. Eggs 1.42 X 1-00, pale grayish buff, or grayish buffy white, boldly 

 spotted with rich vandyke-brown and purplish gray. Hah. Eastern North America 

 breeding far northward ; south, in winter, to Brazil, Peru, and West Indies ; Ber- 

 mudas during migrations 233. M. himantopus (Bonap.). Stilt Sandpiper. 



Genus TRINGA Linn^us. (Page 148, pi. XLYII., figs. 1-3; pi. XLYIII., figs. 1, 2.) 



Species. 



a^. Wing 6.00 or more ; middle pair of tail-feathers not longer than the rest. (Sub- 

 genus Tringa.) 

 ¥. Wing less than 7.00 ; summer adult with lower parts uniform light cinna- 

 mon. Summer adult : Above light grayish, irregularly varied with black 

 and tinged with pale rusty ; rump and upper tail-coverts white, ii'regu- 

 larly barred and spotted with dusky ; distinct superciliary stripe and 

 lower parts generally, uniform pale vinaceous-cinnamon, paler on belly; 

 under wing-coverts, axillars, flanks, and lower tail-coverts white, usually 

 more or less marked with dusky. Winter plumage : Above plain ash- 

 gray, the feathers with indistinct darker shaft-streaks ; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts white, barred with dusky ; lower parts white, the throat, 

 fore-neck, chest, and sides streaked and otherwise marked with dusky. 

 Young : Above ash-gray, each feather bordered with whitish and with 

 a subedging of dusky ; lower pai'ts whitish, sometimes tinged with dull 

 buffy on breast, etc., the neck and chest streaked and flecked with duskj'-, 

 the sides indistinctly barred and spotted with the same ; otherwise, like 

 adult. Downy young : " Forehead warm buff, with a central black line ; 

 over the eye a double black line ; crown, from centre backwards, black, 

 slightly varied with rufous, and dotted with buff"; nape creamy buff, 

 slightly varied with blackish; upj)er parts . . . black slightly varied 



