96 BULLETIN" 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



coverts pale brownish gray; bill black; iris dark brown; legs and feet 

 dusky (in dried skins) , 



Winter plumage.— PiXeuva conspicuously streaked with black and 

 buffy (more or less deep) ; a supra-auricular stripe of immaculate 

 cinnamon-buff to buffy white, extending from above eyes to nape, 

 where those of opposite sides are confluent; hindneck light brownish 

 gray, more or less distinctly streaked with buffy; interscapulars, 

 scapulars, and wing-coverts deeper brownish gray, broadly margined 

 with cinnamon-buff, the tertials darker (dusky) broadly margined 

 with cinnamon; loral, suborbital, rictal, and malar regions and louver 

 portion of auricular region pale buff or buffy whitish, narrowly 

 streaked with dusky; chin and throat immaculate buffy white, the 

 lower throat and foreneck becoming gradually more buffy and nar- 

 rowly streaked with dusky; chest pale brownish gray, the feathers 

 indistinctly but rather broadly tipped with buff'; a narrow band of 

 dull whitish separating the jugular area from a similarly colored 

 area covering sides of breast and (more narrowly) median portion 

 of breast, the anterior portion of sides nearl}^ uniform buffy wood 

 brown; rest of under parts, including abdomen, immaculate white, 

 passing into cinnamon-buffy on lateral under tail-coverts; otherwise, 

 as in summer plumage. 



Young. — Similar to winter adults but scapulars and interscapulars 

 fuscous-black broadly edged or margined with pale buff; under parts 

 pale buffy, the chest more or less streaked medially and spotted 

 laterally xntli grayish brown, and pale band between chest and 

 breast less distinct. 



Downy young. — "Black above, mottled with spots of rufous or 

 sandy buff: head patterned with black, with a conspicuous white 

 forehead and eyebrow, with a black loral streak and line of black 

 down the centre of the forehead; round the back of the head a creamy 

 white band."^ 



Adult moZ^.— Wing, 144-149.5 (146.9); tail, 67-72 (69); culmen, 

 16-16.5 (16.2); tarsus, 34-86 (34.7); middle toe, 18-20.5 (19.1)^ 



Adult female.— Wing, 137-159 (147.6) ; tail, 66.5-73 (68.9); culmen, 

 15-19 (16.3); tarsus, 35-38.5 (36.1); middle toe, 19-21 (20).'^ 



Breeding in northern Europe and Asia, from British Islands and 

 Norway to eastern Siberia; migrating southv.'ard to southern Europe 

 and northern Africa; accidental in Alaska (King Island, July 23, 1897) . 



[Charadrius] morindlus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 148 (Sweden); ed. 

 12, i, 1766, 254.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 686.— Latham, Index 

 Orn.,ii, 1790, 746.— Turton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 413.— Gray, Hand-list, iii, 

 1871, 14, no. 9989. 



a Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxvi, 237. 

 & Five specimens, 

 c Seven specimens. 



