486 TRINGA MACULATA, PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 



ill June, and were the first, if not tbe only, specimens which have 

 reached naturalists. The labels give no items of the uidification, but 

 this is undoubtedly not peculiar in any respect. The shape and colora- 

 tion conform to the usual styles of the restricted group Actodromas. 

 The ground of the egg of hairdii is clay-colored, tending in some cases 

 to gray, in others to buffy. The spotting is of ricli umber and chocolate 

 browns of varying shade or deptli, with the usual paler shell-markings, 

 lu most instances the markings are fine and innumerable, of indefinite 

 small size and shape, and though thickest and largest at the greater 

 end, oidy occasionally mass there into great blotches. Some specimens 

 show a little black tracery over all at the large end. Several specimens 

 measure as follows : 1.30 by 0.90 inches ; 1.35 by 0.91 ; 1.28 by 0.92. 

 Some were taken early in July, at which date they contained advanced 

 embryos. 



TRINGA MACULATA, Vieill. 



Pectoral Sandpiper; Grass Snipe; Jack Snipe. 



Tringamaciilaia, Vieill., N. D. xxxiv, 1819, 465.- Wheat., Ohio Agric. Rep. 1860, No. 

 208.— ScHLEG., M. P.-B. Scolopaces, 39.— Blas., List B. Eur. 1862, 18.— Tuknb., 

 B. E. Pa. 1869, 31.— Tuippe, Pi-. Bost. Sue. 1872, 241.— Dhess., Ibis, 1866, 36.— 

 Snow, B. Kaus. 1873, 10.— Suxd., Ofv. Vet. Ak. 185^, 587 (St. Bartholomew).— 

 Hart., Br. Birds. 1872, 140.— Coues, Key, 1872, 255.— ScL. & Salv., P. Z. S. 

 1873, 455. 



Triiiga (Actodromas) maculata, Cass., B. N. A. 720. — Ridgw., Ann. Lye. N. Y. x, 1874, 384. 



Tr'niga {LimvociDchdi) mamlala, Gray, Haud-list, iii, 1871, 49, No.' 10303. 



PiVidna maculata, Pahz., Cat. Ois. Enr. 18.56, 15. 



Actodromas maculata, Coues, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1861, 197 aud 230. — Coues & Prent., 

 Smiths. Rep. 1861, 415.— CouES, Pr. Ess. Inst, v, 1863, 294.— McIlwk., thid. 1866, 

 93.— Allen, Pr. Ess. Inst, iv, 1864, 77.— Verr., ibkl. iii, 1862, 153. — Boardm., 

 Pr. Bost. Soc. ix, 1862, 128.— Lawu., Ann Lye. N. Y. viii, 1866, 294.— Coop., Pr. 

 Cal. Acad. 1868.— Allen, Mem. Bost. Soc. i. 18t)8, 501.— Coues, Pr. Bost. Soc. 

 xii, 1868. 122.— Dall & Bann., Tr. Chic. Acad, i, 1869, 292.— Mayn., Guide, 

 1870, 140.— Allen, Ikili. M. C. Z. iii, 1872, 182. 



PeMna pectoralis, Bp., Comp. List, 1838, 50 ; Cat. Meth. 1842, 60.— (?) Cass., U. S. Ast. 

 Exp. ii, 1855, 195 (may be hairdii). 



Trivga pectoralis, Hw, Long's i<:xp. R. Mts. i, 1823, 171.— Bp., Am. Orn. iv, 1833, 43, pi. 

 23; Syn. 1828, 318.— Nun., Man. ii, 1834, HI.— .Jen., Man. 1835, 210.— Yakr., 

 Br. Birds, ii, 654 ; iii, 82.--Eyt., Cat. Br. Birds, 41.— Keys. & Blas., Wirb. Eur. 

 77.— Aud., Oru. Bio<i. iii, 1835, 601 ; v, 1839, 582 ; pi. 294 ; Svu. 1839, 232 ; B. 

 Am. V, 1842, 259, pi. 329.— Macgil., Man. Br. Birds, ii, 1842, 69.— Temm., Man. 

 iv, 1840, 397 — GiR., B. L. I. 1844, 233.— UeKay, N. Y. Zool, 1844. 242, pi. 85, f. 

 193.— SCHL, Rev. Crit. Ois. Eur. 1844, 89.— Gray, (ien. of B. iii, 1849, 579.— 

 Lkmreye, Av. Cuba, 1850, 98.— VVoodh., Sitgr. Rep. 1853, 100.— Meyer, Br. 

 Birds, V. 1857, 89.— PuTN., Pr. Ess. Inst, i, 1856, 216.— Hoy, Smiths. Rep. 1864, 

 438.— Reinil, Ibis, iii, 1859, 10 (Greeidand).— Sund., Ofv. Vet. Ak. 1869, 602 

 (Porto Rico). 



Trittga domiuicensis, l)EGh., Orn. Eur. ii, 1849,232. 



(?) " Tringa camjHstris, Light., Verz. 1823, 74." (Gray.) 



Among the extralimital quotations are: Scl., P. Z. S. 1856, 310 (Cordova); ibid. 1858, 

 506 (Ecuador) ; ibid. 186(i, 189 (Peru); ibid. 1867, 754 (Hualla.jo); ibid. 1869, 598 (Peru). — 

 Scl., Ibis, i, 229 (Guatemala).- Newt., Ibis, i, 2.58 (Santa Cruz).— Bry., Pr. Bost. Soc. 

 1867, 09 (Bahamas).— Lawr., Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii, 63 (Panama). — Cab., J. f. O. iv, 421 

 (Ciil)a).— Pelz., Orn. Bras. 311 (Brazil). — Gould, B. Eur. pi. 327. — Harting gives six- 

 teen British instances, witli references. 



Hub. — North, Central, and South America. West Indies. Greenland. Europe. 

 Not obtained by any of the Expeditious. 



Under the various names above given, and also under that of " Meadow 

 Snii)e," the Pectoral Sandpiper is well known to sportsmen and others, 

 and is frequently sought after, as its somewhat game-like habits of lying 

 to a dog aud tiu.shing correctly from the grass, like a true Snipe, render 

 it an attractive object of pursuit ; besitle which, in the fall it becomes 

 very fat, and it is then excellent eating. Unlike most Sandpipers, it 



