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dd. Bill stoutcT, especially toward base; summer adults with throat and fore- 

 neck plain cinnamon-rufous: winter plumage ligrhter above. (Eastern 

 Siberia to (.'ommandor Islands, migrating southward to Malay Archipelago 

 and Australia; casual oroccasional in Alaska. j.Pisobia ruficollis (p. 290). 

 cc. Tail graduated (slightly); only the outermost primary vnth shaft white; outer- 

 most rectrices white; summer adult not at all rufescent above; legs and feet 

 grayish or olivaceous. (Northern Europe and Asia, migrating to Africa, 



India, Ceylon, etc.) Pisobia temminckii (extralimital)." 



bb. Middle toe, with claw, longer than tarsus, decidedly longer ihan exposed cul- 

 men, the latter more than one-fifth as long as wing, 

 c. Middle toe, with claw, less than one-fourth as long as wing (middle toe, without 

 claw, 15-17); all the primaries with shafts at least partly white. (North 

 America, breeding northward: South America in migration.) 



Pisobia minutlUa (p. 294). 



cc. Middle toe, with claw, more than one-fourth as long as wing (middle toe, 



without claw, 19-21.5); only the outermost primary with shaft white. 



(Northeastern Asia, migrating to Malay Archipelago, Australia, etc.; casual 



or occasional in western Alaska.) Pisobia subminuta (p. 300). 



PISOBIA MACULATA (Vieillot). 



PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 



Adults in summer. — General color of upper parts light drab, streaked 

 and spotted with black, the black predominating on scapulars and 

 interscapulars, in the form of central spots, and on the pileum the 

 black streaks, rather broader than the buffy drab ones; brown edgings 

 or margins of scapulars, especially the posterior ones, more or less 

 tinged or intermixed with cinnamon or rusty; wing-coverts grayish 

 brown or drab distinctly, but not sharply, margined with paler, the 

 greater coverts narrowly tipped with dull buffy whitish; secondaries 

 grayish brown, narrowly edged with paler and margined terminally with 

 dull buffy white; primary coverts and primaries darker grayish brown, 

 the latter indistinctly and very narrowly edged with paler, the shaft 

 of outermost quUl entirely yellowish white, the shafts of other quills 

 light brown, becoming paler (brownish white) sub terminally; rump 

 and median upper tail-coverts sooty black, indistinctly margined with 

 brownish, the lateral upper tail-coverts white with a median cuneate 

 or sagittate streak of dusky, mostly on outer web; middle pair of 



o Tringa temminckii Leisler, Nachtr. Bechst. Naturg. Deutschl., ii, 1812, 78 (near 

 Hanau on the Main); Naumann, Vog. Deutschl., vii, 1836, 483; xiii, 1847, 234; Yar- 

 rell. Hist. Brit. Birds, ed. 2, iii, 1845, 70; ed. 3, 1856, 74; MacgillivTay, Hist. Brit. 

 Birds, iv, 1852, 232. — Tringa temmincki Dresser, Birds Europe, viii, 1871, 45, pi. 549, 

 fig. 1: pi. 551, fig. 2. — Pelidna temmincki Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool., xii, pt. i, 

 1824, 103. — Calidris temminckii Cuvier, Rfegne Anim., ed. 2, i, 1829, 526. — Leimoniles 

 temminckii Kaup, Natiirl. Syst., 1829, 37; Gould, Birds Great Brit., iv, 1873, pi. 73 

 and text. — Limonites temminckii Giglioli, Ibis, 1865, 61. — Limonites temmincki Sharpe, 

 Cat. Bii'ds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 555. — [Pisobia] temmincki Lonnberg, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 Oct., 1906, 533. — Schocniclus temminckii Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Grallse, 1844, 

 106. — [Actodromcis] temminckii Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 596. — Pelidna 

 gracilis Brehm, Vogelf., 1855, 318. 



