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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



grayish basaDy; iris dark brown; legs and feet dusky (yellowish gray 

 or olive-gray, the joints more bluish, in life)." 



Winter plumage. — Scapulars and interscapulars brownish gray 

 margined with whitish, the foreneck, etc., unstreaked; otherwise as 

 in summer. 



Young. — Similar to the winter plumage, but scapulars and inter- 

 scapulars rather lighter brownish gray, margined with paler gray or 

 grayish white and with a sub-edging of dusky in form of an irregular 

 dusky line near to and parallel with the margin, and tertials with 

 short zig-zag obUque bars along edges of both webs; foreneck, chest, 

 and sides immaculate white. 



Downy young. — ''Upper parts black and gray, with reddish tinge; 

 forehead, sides of head, and whole under parts white; a steak tlirough 

 the eye, a fine Une along the forehead, a larger spot on the crown, a 

 few lines or spots over the arm, sides of rump, and tail-down black, 

 often mixed with reddish brown."'' 



Adult male.^Wing, 178-191 (182.5); tail, 70-83 (76); exposed 

 cuimen, 52-58 (54.8); tarsus, 53.5-63 (58.5); middle toe, 32-34.5 

 (32.3). '^ 



Adult female. —Wing, 176-189 (184.4); tail, 70-82 (76.4); exposed 

 cuimen, 50.5-57 (54.9); tarsus, 51-61 (57.9); middle toe 31-35 

 (33. l).'^ 



Breeding in northern Europe and Asia (highlands of Scotland, 

 fells of Norway, Sweden, etc., and valleys of Petchora and Obb, 

 Siberia, lat. 60° to 66° N.) ; migrating southward to southern Africa, 

 India, Burma, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Java, Philippine 

 Islands, AustraUa, etc., wintering northward to China and Mediter- 

 ranean basin; accidental in Florida (also in southern Brazil, Argen- 

 tina, and Chile?); not recorded from Iceland nor Greenland. 



a Stejneger, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 29, 1885, 128, footnote. 



t> Dresser, Birds of Europe, viii, 1871, 175. 



c Ten specimens. 



d Eight specimens. 1 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Four adult males from Europe 



Six adult males from eastern Asia 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from Europe 



Seven adult females from eastern Asia 



Wing. 



182.5 

 182. 9 



18,5 

 184.3 



Tail. 



77 

 75.4 



82 

 75.6 



Ex- 

 posed 

 cul- 



55.7 

 54.2 



54.9 



Tarsus. 



58.7 

 58.4 



59 

 57.8 



Middle 

 toe. 



32.9 

 33.8 



34 

 32. ft 



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