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Winter plumage. — Above doop brownish gray or grayish ])rown 

 (between drab and hair brown), tlic feathers broadly bhickish 

 medially or centrally, producing broad streaks on pileum and large 

 spots on scapuUxrs and interscapulars; foronock and chest pale 

 brownish gray or grayish brown, narrowly and indistinctly streaked 

 with dusky; otherwise as in summer. 



Young. — Much like summer adults, but whitish terminal margins 

 to scapulars more distinct and continuous, pale margins to wing- 

 coverts less sharply defined, and texture of plumage distinctive 

 (softer and more lax). 



Adult male.— Wing, 87-93 (89.2); tail, 35.5-39 (37.1); exposed 

 culmen, 16.5-18 (17.1); tarsus, 20.5-21 (20.9); middle toe, 19-20.5 

 (19.9).« 



Adult female.— Wing, 89.5-90.5 (92.2); tail, 35-41 (38.1); exposed 

 culmen, 17-19.5 (18.2); tarsus, 21-22.5 (21.7); middle toe, 20-21.5 

 (20.6).« 



Breeding in eastern Siberia, Kamchatka (including Commander 

 Islands), and Kuril Islands; migrating southward through China, 

 Japan, etc., to Philippine Islands, Malay Peninsula, Burma, Ceylon, 

 Borneo, Java, Celebes, northern Australia, etc.; accidental on Otter 

 Island, Pribilof group, Alaska (1 spec, June 8, 1885). 



Tringasubminuta'MwDEisiDORFF, Reis. Sibir., Zool., 1851, 222 (west slope Stanovoi 

 Mountains, Siberia, May 19; Uda River, June 30). — Schrenck, Reis. Amur- 

 land, i, 1860, 424 (s. Amur, July).— Swinhoe, Ibis, 1863, 97 (northern China). 

 — Radde, Reis. Sibir., ii, Vog., 1863, 333 (Tarei-Nor, May). — Jerdon, Birds 

 India, iii, 1864, 691.— Dybowski and Parvex, Journ. fur Orn., 1868, 337 

 (Durasun). — Taczanowski, Journ. fiir Orn., 1873, 103 (e. Siberia); Bull. 

 See. Zool. France, i, 1876, 253 (s. e. Siberia); 1883, 339 (Kamchatka); Orn. 

 Faun. Vost. Sibir., 1877, 56; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1888, 457 (Seoul, Korea); 

 Mem. Ac. Imp. St. Petersb., (7), xxxix, 1893, 914 (eastern Siberia). — Prje- 

 VALSKY, Rowley's Orn. Misc., iii, 1878, 90 (s. e. Mongolia). — Legge, Birds 

 Ceylon, 1880, 889.— Oates, Handb. Birds Brit. Burma, ii, 1883, 391.— 

 Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. Asiat. Soc. Japan, x, 1882, 112. — Blakiston, 

 Amend. List Birds Japan, 1884, 21, 37 (Kuril Islands). — Seebohm, Ibis, 

 1884, 34 (China and Japan; crit.); Hist. Brit. Birds, iii, 1885, 204; Goog. Distr. 

 Charadriidse, 1887, pp. xxv, 438; Birds Japanese Emp., 1890, 338 (Yokohama; 

 Hakodate; Kuril Islands). — Bogdanow, Consp. Av. Imp. Ross., 1884, 92. — • 

 NiKOLSKi, He Saklial., 1886, 261.— Sharpe, Ibis, 1890, 143, 287 (Abai, n. 

 Borneo). — Styan, Ibis, 1891, 330, 506 (lower Yangtse River, in migration); 

 1894, 335 (Shanghai). — Hartert, Kat. Vogelsamml. Senckenb. Mus., 1891, 

 221 (Java); Novit. Zool., xiii, 1916, 92 (crit. on the name). 

 [Aclodromus] subminuta Boxaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 596. 

 Erolia subminuta Hartert, Novit. Zool., xxiii, 1916, 93. 

 Erolia viinutilla subminuta Hartert, Xovit. Zool., xxiii, 1916, 93 (crit. on the 



name). 

 Actodromas subminutus Stejxeger, Proc. U. S. Xat. Mus., vi, 1883, 71 (Bering 

 Island). 



^Six specimens. 



