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as fine as in A. hairdi., but the egg is larger and has not the 

 characteristic ruddy hue. All the eggs have the usual shell 

 markings of pale purplish gray and light neutral tint. The 

 eggs may be distinguished from those of the Buff -breasted Sand- 

 piper, which they closely resemble, by their warmer color. 



Tringa fuscicollia Viell. 



WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER. 

 PLATE XI. 



Migratory; common. Arrive the last of April to first of May, 

 occasionally arriving as early as the last of March, and I have 

 in the "Goss Ornithological Collection" a pair shot the 17th 

 and 22d of May; return early in September. 



B. 533. E. 536. C. 617. G. 246, 79. U. 240. 



Habitat. Nearly the whole of America, north to Greenland, 

 south to Falkland Islands, occasionally in Europe; breeds from 

 Labrador and Alaska northward. 



Sp. Char. ^^Adult, in summer: Above light brownish gray, much tinged, 

 particularly on the crown, back and inner scapulars, with light msty buff or 

 ochraceous, all ihe feathers black centrally, these markings largest and some- 

 what V-shaped, or sagittate, on the scapulars, streak-like elsewhere, the streaks 

 broadest on the crown and back; rump dusky blackish, the feathers bordered 

 with light gray; upper tail coverts pure white, in marked contrast, some of the 

 feathers having irregular, sagittate, mostly concealed, spots of dusky. Tail 

 brownish gray, the middle feathers blackish, and all slightly edged with whitish. 

 Wing coverts and tertials brownish gray, lighter on edges and dusky centrally, 

 the shafts nearly black. Superciliary stripe and entire lower parts pure white; 

 aiiriculars light buff, indistinctly streaked; sides of head and neck, foreneck, 

 jugulum and upper part of breast streaked or dashed with dusky; sides and 

 flanks with larger irregular markings of the same. Adult, in winter: Wings, 

 rump, upper tail coverts and tail as in summer plumage; rest of upper parts 

 continuous brownish gray, relieved by rather indistinct mesial streaks of black; 

 streaks on jugulum, etc., less shari)ly defined than in the summer plumage. 

 Young, first plumage: Back and scapulars black, the feathers bordered termin- 

 ally with pure white, and laterally with ferruginous, those of the middle of the 

 back also tipped with this color; feathers of the pileum and rump, as well as the 

 tertials, also bordered with rusty; wing coverts bordered with pale grayish buff. 

 Otherwise as in the winter plumage, but breast, jugulum, etc., suffused with pale 

 fulvous." 



Stretch of 

 Length. wing. Wing. Tail. Tarstis. Bill. 



Male 7.25 15.00 4.75 2.25 .95 .95 



Female... 7.20 14.75 4.70 2.10 .95 .95 



Iris dark brown; bill black, with base of under reddish flesh 



color. Legs and feet dark olive brown, claws black. 



