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Coloration. — Above brownish gray, barred, streaked, or irregularly 

 marked with blackish; beneath mostly white, sometimes spotted 

 with black or dusky; a -broad, oblique band or white across inner 

 webs of remiges. 



Range. — Northern hemisphere. (Two species.) 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF ACTITIS. 



a. Slimmer adults with under parts everywhere spotted with blackish. (Xorth 



America; Middle and South America in winter.) Actitis macularia (p. 372). 



aa. Summer adults with under parts immaculate white, except chest, which is pale 

 grayish brown streaked with darker. (Northern Europe and Asia, migrating 

 to South Africa, India, Australia, etc.) Acititis hypoleucos (extralimital).a 



ACTITIS MACLTLARIA (Linnasus). 



SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 



Adults in summer. — Upper parts greenish or bronzy grayish brown, 

 with a faint metallic gloss, the pileum streaked with dusky, the back, 

 scapulars, wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts irregularly 

 marked with blackish, the markings mostly in form of transverse 

 spots but intermixed, more or less, with others of more or less sagittate 

 or lanceolate form; secondaries broadly tipped with white and. with 

 more than their basal half abruptly white; primaries plain dusky; tail 

 bronzy grayish brown, the lateral rectrices broadly barred with white, 

 the rest (except middle pair) tipped with white; a more or less 

 distinct superciliary stripe of white (sometimes nearly obsolete); 

 under parts white, marked everywhere (except on cliin and upper 

 throat — sometimes on these) with roundish spots of black or dusky; 

 axillars immacidate white; inner webs' of primaries (except outer- 

 most) with a longitudinal patch of white, increasing in width toward 

 the innermost, on which the white extends to shaft; maxilla black, 

 with yellowish tomia, the mandible mostly or wholly yellow (in life) ; 

 iris dark brown ; legs and feet pale grayish olive (in life) . 



a {Tringa] hypoleucos "Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 149 (Sweden); ed. 12, i, 

 1766, 250. — Tringa hypoleucos Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 171. — Actitis hypoleucos 

 Boie, Isis, 1822, 560; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl., viii, 1836, 7, pi. 194; Stejneger, 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 29, 1885, 131. — Totamis hypoleucos Temminck, Man. 

 d'Orn., 1815, 424; Vieillot, Nouv. Diet, d'llist. Nat., vi, 1816, A07. — Totcmushypoleucus 

 Seebohm, Geog. Distr. Charadriidse, 1887,371. — Guinetta hypoleuca Gray, List Gen. 

 Birds, 1840, 68. — Tringoides hypoleucus Bonaparte, Saggio Distr. Metod., 1831, 58; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 456, 762. — Totanus guinetta Leach, Syst. 

 Cat. Mam., etc., Brit. Mus., 1816, 30 (ex Tringa guinetta Brisson). — Trynga leucoptera 

 Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., ii, 1826, 196. — {1)Tringa leucoptera Schalow, Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1891, 260 (Kodiak Island, Alaska).— ylciiiis dnclus Boie, Isis, 1826, 327.— 

 Actitis stagnatilis Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 649. — Actitis empusa Gould, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, 222 (Port Essington, Australia). — Totanus empusa Gray, 

 Cat. Birds New Guinea, 1859, 52. — Tringoides empusa Sclater, Journ. Proc. Linn. 

 Soc, ii, 1858, 170. — [Actitis] schlegeli Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 597. 



