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Winter plumage. — Without any black on sides of head or under 

 parts, which are wliitc on throat and abdomen, elsewhere pale grayish 

 brown, streaked on chest, etc., with darker; upper parts less con- 

 spicuously speckled with j^cllow. 



Young. — Similar to winter adults but upper parts more con- 

 spicuously speckled with yellow, the chest and adjacent parts strongly 

 tmged or suffused with buffy yellow. 



Downy young. — Upper parts dull buffy yellow (naples yellow or 

 mustard yellow), irregularly mottled or marbled with black; forehead 

 and superciliary region dull buffy yellow to pale yellowish buff, the 

 former with an irregular median streak or series of spots, the latter 

 with irregular markings of black or brownish black, the lores also 

 with a central irregular streak or spot of the same; suborbital and 

 malar regions and under parts dull white, the m.alar region with a 

 rictal or post-rictal spot or streak, and on subauricular portion 

 irregular markings of black. 



Adult maZe.— Wing, 171-189 (180.5); tail, 69-83 (74.4); culmcn, 

 21-24.5 (22.5); tarsus, 37-43 (40.5); middle toe, 24-26.5 (25.1)." 



Adult female.—Wmg, 180-181 (180.2); tail, 70.5-72.5 (71.7); 

 cuhnen, 22-23 (22.4); tarsus, 38-41 (39.5); middle toe, 23.5-26 

 (24.7).^ 



Europe and Asia; breeding from British Islands (including Shet- 

 lands) and central Europe to Iceland and Arctic coast of Europe and 

 Asia as far eastward as valley of Yenesei River, Siberia; migrating 

 southward to northern Africa (occasionally to southern Africa) and 

 India; occasional or casual in southern Greenland (several records). 



{CharadriiLs] apricarius Linn.-eus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 150, part (Oeland 

 Island, Sweden; ex Fauna Suecica, 156; etc.); ed. 12, i, 1766, 254.— Brunnich, 

 Orn. Bor., 1764, 56.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 687.— Latham, Index 

 Oru., ii, 1790, 742, part.— Turton, Syst. Nat., i, 130G, 415..— Gray, Hand- 

 list, iii, 1871, 13, no. 9982. 

 Charadrius apricarius,FABnicivs, Faun. Groenl., 1780, 114. — Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso- 

 Asiat., ii, 1826, 146.— Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 541, pi. 27, fig. 3.— Holm, 

 Naturhist. Tidsskr., 2d ser., ii, 1848, 485 (Faroe Islands). — Kjaerbolling, 

 Danm. Fugle, 1852, pi. 30, fig. 6.— Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl., 1856-72, pi. 

 36, figs. 2, 3. — Heuglin, Ibis, 1872, 62 (Novaya Zemlya; Yugorsky Strait 

 and Waigats, n. Russia), 118 (Arctic Europe); Orn. N. Ost-Afrika, ii, pt. 

 i, 1873, 1014 (Nile delta, in winter). — Palmen, Finlands Foglar, 1873, 91. — 

 Reinhardt, Vid. Medd. Forh. Kjobenhavn, 1874, nos. 12-l(i, 3 (Greenland); 

 1881, 184 (Greenland). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Birds N. Am., 

 i, 1884, 138. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, and 2d 

 . ed., 1895, no. 271; 3rd ed., 1910, p. 127.— Chamberlain (M.), Auk, vi, 1889, 



217 (s. Greenland, several records) . — Frivaldsky, Av. Hung., 1891. 121. 

 C[haradnus] apricarius Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 173. 



o Eleven specimens. ^ Four specimens. 



40017— 19— Bull. 50, pt 8 7 



