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about one-fourth as long as wing, the acrotarsium with rather large 

 transverse scutella, the planta tarsi with much smaller quadrate 

 scales, the sides of tarsus with small hexagonal scales; middle toe, 

 without claw, more than half as long as tarsus, the outer and inner 

 toes, successively, much shorter; hallux absent; a well-developed web 

 between basal phalanges of outer and middle toes, ])ut none between 

 inner and middle toes. 



Coloration. — Adults with chest brownish gray or grayish brown, 

 margined below by a narrow dusky and ])road wiiite band; breast and 

 sides cinnamon, encircting a dusky abdominal area; a broad white 

 supra-auricular stripe; scapulars, wing-coverts, and tertials dusky 

 broadly margined with buffy. Young conspicuously streaked on 

 upper parts with buffy, the under parts mostly buffy. 



Bange. — Northern Europe and Asia, south in winter to northern 

 Africa, etc.; accidental in Alaska. (Monotypic.) 



EUDROMIAS MORINELLUS (Linnaeus). 



DOTTEREL. 



Adults in breeding 'plumage (sexes alike). — Pileum dull black or 

 blackish fuscous, more or less streaked, especially medially and 

 anteriorl}^ (sometimes on forehead only) with pale buff, the anterior 

 portion of forehead dull whitish, dull pale buffy or pale grayish, 

 streaked or immaculate; a broad white superciliary stripe, extending 

 from lores to nape, where those of opposite sides are confluent; 

 loral, suborbital and malar regions, chin, and throat white, more or 

 less streaked, narrowly, with dusky, the chin and throat, however, 

 usually immaculate or nearly so; upper portion of auricular region 

 dusky, the lower posterior portion, together with neck (all round) 

 and chest light brovvnish gray or grayish drab, the chest somewhat 

 paler and sometimes tinged with buffy; general color of upper parts 

 grayish drab, the scapulars, tertials, and wing-coverts margined with 

 buff or cinnamon-buff, the interscapulars sometimes narrowly mar- 

 gined with the same: rump and upper tail-coverts pale grayish drab, 

 indistinctly margined with buffy; remiges and primary coverts darker 

 grayish brown or dusky, the secondaries and terminal portion of 

 proximal primaries margined with dull buflV white; outermost 

 primary with shaft white; tail grayish drab passing into dusky subter- 

 minally and tipped with pale brownish buff or buffy white, more broadly 

 on lateral rectrices; a narrow band or bar, more or less distinct, of 

 blackish or dusky across lower margin of chest, and immediately 

 below this a broader band of white or buffy white; breast, sides, and 

 flanks plain, tawny-olive, or sayal brown; abdomen (extensively), 

 except lower portion, black; lower abdomen, anal region, and under 

 tail-coverts immaculate white to pale buff; axillars and under wing- 



