170 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



a^. Summer adult with lower parts marked everywhere with roundish spots of 

 blackish. Winter adult : Above plain grayish olive, with a faint bronze gloss, 

 with no markings except dusky shaft-streaks, except on wing-coverts, which 

 are more or less barred with dusky ; lower parts immaculate white, faintly 

 shaded across chest with brownish gray, most distinct laterally. Young : 

 Similar to winter plumage, but wing-coverts, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts 

 more or less barred with pale dull buff and dusky. Downy young : Above 

 yellowish gray, with a narrow black stripe down back, continued anteriorly 

 to the bill ; a narrow black line on each side of head, through eye ; lower 

 parts dull white. Length about 7.00-8.00, wing 4.05-4.60, culmen .90-1.05, 

 tarsus .90-1.05. Eggs 2-5, 1.25 X -90, short-ovate, buffy, more or less thickly 

 speckled and spotted with dark brown and black. Hab. Whole of North 

 America ; south, in winter, through West Indies, Middle America, and northern 

 South America to Brazil • accidental or occasional in Europe. 



263. A. macularia (Linn.). Spotted Sandpiper. 

 a^. Summer adult with lower parts plain white, except chest, which is pale brownish 



gray, streaked with darker. 



Other plumages very similar to corresponding stages of A. macularia; 

 length about 6.50-7.50, wing 3.80-4.40, culmen 1.00-1.05, tarsus .95-1.05. 

 Hah. Northern portions of eastern hemisphere, east to Commander 

 ' Islands, Kamtschatka. 



A, hypoleucos (Linn.). Common Sandpiper (of Europe).^ 



Genus NUMENIUS Brisson. (Page 149, pi. XLIX., fig. 2.) 



Species. 

 a}. Feathers of thighs without lengthened bristly points. 

 V. Eump not white. 



c\ Secondaries and quills rusty cinnamon, the outer webs of latter dusky ; 

 axillars deep cinnamon, without distinct bars ; lower parts pale cin- 

 namon. 

 Above pale cinnamon, tinged here and there with grayish, varied, 

 transversel}^, with blackish, the top of head narrowly streaked 

 with dusky, but without median light stripe ; secondaries and 

 quills cinnamon-rufous, the outer webs of the latter dusky. 

 Doiony young : Buffy yellow, deeper above, tinged with sulphur- 

 3^ellow beneath ; upper parts coarsely and irregularly marbled 

 with black; bill straight, about 1.40 long. Length about 20.00- 

 26.00, wing 10.00-11.00, culmen 2.30 (young of year)-8.50, tar- 

 sus about 2.25. Eggs 2-4, 2.59 X 1-81, ^^ght grayish buff or pale 

 buffy brown, spotted, blotched, or speckled with umber-brown. 

 Hab. Whole of temperate North America, migrating south to 

 Guatemala, Cuba, and Jamaica. 



264. N. longirostris Wils. Long-billed Curlew. 



1 Tringa hyiioleiicos LiNN., S. N. ed. 10, i. 1758, 149. Actitis hypoleucoa BoiE, Isis, 1822, 560. 



