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immaculate white; axillars sooty blackish; bill black; iris dark 

 brown; legs and feet dull black or gra3Msh black. 



Winter iilumage. — Sides of head and under parts white, the former 

 more or less streaked with dusky, the foreneck and chest shaded with 

 brownish gray and slightly streaked or mottled with dusky; upper 

 parts without black spotting, the general color being brownish gray 

 or grayish brown, broken by whitish margins and darker grayish 

 submargins to the feathers; otherwise, essentialh' as in summer. 



Young. — Similar to winter adults but upper parts more or less dis- 

 tinctl}^ speckled with light buff -yellowish. 



Downy young. — Above olive-yellowish marbled with blackish, the 

 hindneck white; a blackish line along sides of crown, another across 

 lores, from bill to eye, and a less distinct, somewhat curved line of 

 black beneath eye; underparts white. 



Adult maZe.— Wing, 17S-199 (1S9.3); tail, 68-82 (75.4); culmen, 

 29.5-31.5 (30.4); tarsus, 42-51 (45.3); middle toe, 25.5-29.5 (28.4). « 



Adult female.— ^Ymg, 179-196 (187.5); tail, 69-84 (73.7); culmen, 

 27.5-31 (29.5); tarsus, 41.5-48.5 (44.7); middle toe, 26-28 (27.4). « 



Breeding in circumpolar regions; in North America from Noatak 

 River, Point Barrow, etc., Alaska to Boothia and Melville peninsulas; 

 in migration practically cosmopolitan, though almost wanting from 

 the whole of Oceania (recorded only as an accidental visitor to 

 Hawaii); in South America migrating as far as southern Brazil 

 (Cujutuba; San Sebastiao ; Sao Paulo, etc.), Paraguay, Peru (Chim- 

 botc), and Galapagos Archipelago (Albemarle, Charles, Chatham, 

 Hood, and Jervis islands) ; in Eastern Hemisphere migrating south- 

 ward as far as Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea, etc. 



[Tringa] squatarola Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 149 (Sweden); ed. 12, i, 

 17G6, 252.— Brunxich, Orn. Bor., 1768, 52.— Gmelix, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 

 1789, 682.— Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 729.— Turton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 

 411. 



a Twelve specimens. 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Two adult males from France (migrants) 



Eight adult males from Altantic coast, United States (migrants) 

 Two adult males from Alaska 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from England (migrant) 



Two adult females from France (migrants) 



One adult female from Russia (lower Petchora River) 



Two adult females from Greenland (including Franklin Ray). . 

 Four adult females from Atlantic Coast, United States (migrants) 



One adult female from Arctic coast east of Fort Anderson 



One adult female from Grenada, Lesser Antilles (migrant) 



Tarsus. 



45.7 

 43.9 

 50.5 



44.5 



46.5 



48.5 



44.5 



43.9 



44 



41.5 



Middle 

 toe. 



27.2 

 27.9 

 2<t.5 



L',.0 



27.7 



28 



27.2 



27.2 



28 



26 



