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feathers with rather indistinct narrow mesial streaks of dusky; under 

 parts as in summer, but streaks on chest, etc., less sharply defined. 



Young. — Scapulars and interscapulars blackisli margined termi- 

 nally with white and edged laterally with cinnamon-rufous or rusty, 

 the median interscapulars tipped with the latter color; feathers of 

 pilcum, and rump, as well as tertials, dusky margined with rusty; 

 wing-coverts margined with pale grayish buffy; otherwise as in 

 winter plumage, but chest, etc., tinged, more or less strohgly, with 

 buffy or pale fulvous. 



Adult male.— Whig, 117-122.5 (119.7); tail, 50-53 (51.4); exposed 

 culmen, 21-24 (22.7); tarsus, 22-24 (23.1); middle toe, 18-21 (19.2).« 



Adult female. —Wing, 116.5-124 (120.6); tail, 50-54 (51); exposed 

 culmen, 21-26 (23.1); tarsus, 22-24 (22.8); middle toe, 19-19.5 

 (19.1).^ 



Breeding along or near Arctic coast of North America, from north- 

 western Mackenzie to Cumberland Island; occurring also in summer 

 (but not breeding ?) west to Point Barrow, Alaska, and east to Green- 

 land; migratiug southward, eastward of Rocky Mountains, chiefly 

 through Mississippi Valley, to southern South America, wintering in 

 Paraguay (Rio Pilcomayo; Rio Parana), Uruguay (Montevideo), 

 Argentina (Buenos Aires; Ranchos; Los Inglasas; near Esquina, 

 Cape San Ant6nio; Entre Rios; Mocovi; Cordova; Puerto San Julian, 

 Patagonia; central Patagonia), southern Chile (Gregory Bay, Straits 

 of Magellan; Punta Anegada, Tierra del Fuego), and Falkland 

 Islands; in transit occurs sparingly at intermediate points south of 

 United States, the few Middle American records being as follows, in 

 part: Cuba; Jamaica; Barbuda; Santa Lucia; Guadeloupe; Barbados, 

 m West Indies; Bermudas, frequent in autumn; yucat6.n (Tizmiin; 

 Cozumel Island); Nicaragua (^lomotombo) ; Panama (Lion HiU). 

 Casual in Europe (Franz Josef Land, June 28, 1897; San Miguel, 

 Azores; British Islands, 9 records). 



Tringa fuscicollis ViEn.LOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxxiv, 1819, 461 (Paraguay; 

 based on Chorlito peslorejo -pardo Azara, Apunt. Parag., iii, 1805, 322). — 

 Hartlaub, Index Azara's Apunt., 1847, 25. — Dresser, Birds Europe, viii, 

 1873, 15 pi. 547.— Berlepsch, Journ. fur Orn., 1874, 263 (Santa Catarina, 

 s. Brazil; synonymy; crit.); 1887, 36 (Rio Pilcomayo, Paraguay, Jan.), 126 

 (Paraguay). — Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 487. — Sclater, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1876, 14 (Santa Lucia, Lesser Antilles). — Durnford, Ibis, 

 1878, 68 (Buenos Aires, spring and autumn), 404 (centr. Patagonia, common, 

 "resident"). — Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 161 (Fort Brown, 

 Texas). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 438 (Falkland 

 Islands); Voy. 'Challenger,' ii, pt. viii, 1881, 109 (Peckett Harbor, Falk- 

 land Islands).— Ma YNARD, Birds E. N. Am., 1879, 382.— Allen, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, v, 1880, 169 (Santa Lucia); Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., ii, 1889, 109 

 (Falls of Rio Madeira, Bolivia, Oct.); v, 1893, 150 (Chapada, Mattogrosso, 



o Twelve specimens. & Two specimens. 



