226 BULLETIlSr 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Coloration. — Buffy, above more grayish streaked and blotched with 



black ; inner webs of remiges mottled or freckled distally with dusky. 



Range. — North America (South America in winter.) (Monotypic.) 



TRYNGITES SUBRUFICOLLIS (Vieillot). 



BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 



Adults (sexes ahke), — General color of upper parts light grayish buff 

 or light drab-buff, the pileum broadly streaked with black, the lesser 

 wing-coverts each with a central cuneate spot of black; scapulars 

 and interscapulars black broadly margined with Hght grayish buff or 

 drab-buff; greater coverts grayish brown narrowly edged and moro 

 broadly margined at tip with buffy whitish, the whitish tip preceded 

 by a more or less V- or U-shaped mark of black; primary coverts 

 deeper grayish brown with a subtermmal black spot and narrow 

 terminal margin of white; secondaries with outer webs mostly plain 

 dusky for terminal, grayish brown for basal, half, their inner webs 

 immaculate white for proximal two-thirds or more, the distal portion 

 irregularly marbled or mottled with black and pale buffy; tertials 

 grayish brown deepening into dusky distally, broadly edged, on both 

 webs, with light buffy drab; primaries grayish brown with a large 

 sub terminal spot of black and smaller white tip; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts light buffy drab with a large subterminal area of black; 

 middle retrices grayish brown passing into dusky terminally and 

 indistinctly edged with paler; other rectrices lighter grayish brown 

 (paler and more buffy on outer webs) narrowly tipped with buffy 

 white and with a subterminal area of black, the brownish portion on 

 outer webs with one or two longitudinal lines of dusky; sides of head 

 and neck and under parts dull light pinkish cinnamon or deep pinkish 

 buff, passing into buffy white on abdomen, flanks, and under tail- 

 coverts, the feathers of foreneck, chest, breast, and sides more or less 

 distinctly tipped with buffy whitish; axillars, under wing-coverts, and 

 basal portion of inner webs of remiges immaculate white, the under 

 primar}'- coverts, however, pale buffy grayish brown, tipped with 

 white and with a subterminal spot and irregular longitudinal lines of 

 black; inner webs of remiges (except basal portion) irregularly 

 spotted or marbled with black; bill black terminally, more brownish 

 basally; iris dark brown; legs and feet pale brownish (yellowish in 

 life). 



Young. — Similar to adults but the upper parts with the black and 

 lighter color less charply contrasted, and each feather conspicuously 

 margined with white, and with the marbling on inner webs of remiges 

 and on under primary coverts much more minute (more dot-like) 

 than in adults. 



