158 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



of all the quills white for greater j)ortion.* Summer adult : 

 Scapulars and interscapulars bordered and irregularly in- 

 dented with rusty ochraceous, these lighter markings some- 

 times extended nearly or quite to the shaft, thus dividing 

 the black into more or less completely separated spots ; 

 tertials broadly edged with rusty ochraceous; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts plain- brownish black, the outermost 

 feathers of the latter jDartly or entirely white ; top of head 

 rusty ochraceous, broadly streaked with black; fore-neck 

 and chest dull brownish white, streaked with dusky ; rest 

 of lower parts plain white. Winter plumage : Above plain 

 brownish gray, with dusky shaft-streaks ; chest pale gray- 

 ish, very indistinctly streaked with darker; rest of lower 

 parts plain white. Young : Similar to summer adults, but 

 scapulars and outermost interscapulars with white tips to 

 outer webs, and lacking the concealed ochraceous bars; 

 lower parts more as in winter plumage. Length 5.00-6.75, 

 wing 3.50-3.75, culmen .75-.92, tarsus .75. Eggs 1.15 X -83, 

 pale grayish buffy, varj^ing to pale brownish, thickly spotted, 

 siseckled, or sprinkled with deep chestnut and dull purplish 

 gray. Hob. America in general, but breeding only in arctic 

 and subarctic districts. 



242. T. minutilla Vieill. Least Sandpiper. 

 e^. Middle toe, without claw, longer than exposed culmen ; shafts 

 of all the quills, except first, wholly dark brown. Summer 

 adult : Very similar to corresponding stage of T. minutilla, 

 but feathers of back more broadly edged with tawny 

 ochraceous, and scapulars more broadly edged with a 

 brighter, more rusty shade of the same, these feathers with- 

 out any trace of bars or indentations of the lighter color. 

 Winter plumage, not seen. Young, hardly distinguishable 

 from summer adult. Length about 5.50-6.20, wing 3.45- 

 3.65, culmen .70-.80, tarsus .85-.90. Hab. Asia, breeding 

 toward arctic coast; accidental (?) in Alaska (Otter Island, 

 Bering's Sea, June 8, 1885). 



— . T. damacensis (Horsf.). Long-toed Stint.'' 

 c^ Exposed culmen exceeding tarsus by at least half the length of the 



middle toe, without claw, and more than two-thirds as long as 



tail. 

 rP. Tarsus less than one and a half times as long as middle toe, with- 



1 To this section belong also the type of the subgenus, T. minuta Leisl. ; also, T. temmincldi Leisl., and 

 T. ruficollis Pall., of the northern portions of the eastern hemisphere. 



* Totanus damacensis Horsf., Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. 1821, 129. Tringa damacensis Swinh., P. Z. S. 1863, 

 316. RiDGW. Auk, iii. 1886, 275 (Otter Island, Alaska; Chas. H. Townsend). Actodromas damacensis Stejn., 

 Orn. Expl. Kamtsohat. 1885, 116 (Bering Island, Kamtsohatka^, 



