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brownish gray, the feathers margined with pale gray or grayish white 

 and with a subterminal hmulate ])ar of dusky; upper tail-coverts 

 white, broadly but rather sparsely barred with dusky; tail plain 

 grayish brown, darker on middle pair of rectrices, the lateral rectrices 

 narrowly margined terminally with whitish and with shafts white; 

 anal region and under tail-coverts white, the latter sparsely barred 

 or transversely spotted with dusky, both more or less tinged or inter- 

 mixed with cinnamon-rufous; axillars and under wing-coverts 

 (except along edge of wing) immaculate white; bill dusky, more 

 brownish basally (where olive or olive-greenish in life) ; iris dark 

 brown; legs and feet olivaceous (more or less dark) in life. 



Adult female in swm?7ier.— Similar to the adiilt male and perhaps 

 not always distinguishable but usually with the chestnut-rufous or 

 cinnamon-rufous of under parts somewhat paler, or more broken 

 posteriorly with whitish. 



VtHnter plumage. — Head, neck, back, scapulars, and tertials plain 

 brownish gray or grayish brown, with dusky shaft-streaks; super- 

 ciliarj' stripe, upper tail-coverts, and under parts white, the chest 

 indistinctly streaked with grayish; otherwise Uke summer adults. 



Young. — Scapulars and interscapulars dusky, the feathers edged 

 with dull buffy or light ochraceous and margined terminally %\ith 

 whitish; lesser and middle wing-coverts margined terminally with 

 dull buff; otherwise much like winter plumage, but chest and sides of 

 breast washed with dull buff. 



Adult male.— Wing, 120-130 (123.8); tail, 43.5-49 (47.2); exposed 

 culmen, 33-38 (35.5); tarsus, 28-31 (29.4); middle toe, 19.5-21 (20).« 



Adult fernale.—Wmg, 121-131 (127.2); tail, 46.5-50.5 (48.1); 

 exposed culmen, 33-42 (37.9); tarsus, 27.5-32 (30); middle toe, 

 18.5-20 (19.4) .« 



Eastern Hemisphere: breeding in northern Greenland (Christian- 

 shaab) ?, and Yenesei delta, Taimyr Peninsula, etc., northern Siberia; 

 migrating southward to British Islands, Madeira, Canary Islands, 

 southern Africa, Madagascar, Andaman Islands, India, Philippine 

 Islands, Malay Archipelago, Australia, etc.; occasional in eastern 

 North America (Nova Scotia; Toronto, Ontario; near Scarborough, 

 Maine, Sept. 15, 1881; Calais, Maine; Oxford Co., Maine; Essex Co., 

 Massachusetts; Ipswich, Massachusetts; East Boston, Massachusetts, 

 May, 1876; Barnegat Bay, Long Island, July 29, 1904; Shinnecock 

 Bay, Long Island, May 24, 1883; Egg Harbor, Cape May, and Tucker- 

 ton, New Jersey; etc.) and in northern Alaska (Point Barrow, June 6, 

 1883); accidental in Grenada and Carriacou, Lesser Antilles, and in 

 Patagonia. 



[Tringa] ferruginea Brunnich, Orn. Bor., 1764, 53 (Iceland and C hristiansoe 

 Island). — Hartert, Novit. Zool., viii, 1901, 306 (Canary Islands). 



"Five specimens (none from America). 



