BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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lateral stripes continued along each side of occiput, which is pale 

 brown, transversely mottled or irregularly barred with dusky 

 medially, the two buff superciliary stripes nearly uniting posteriorly 

 where, however, separated by a black nuchal stripe; general color of 

 upper parts hght buffy brown, mottled with dusky, the rump with a 

 median stripe of black margined along each side by a stripe of dull 

 buffy whitish; under parts of body dull buft'y white, tinged poste- 

 riorly with brownish buff. 



Adult male.— Wing, 119-130(125.2); tail, 59-70.5 (62.9); cuhnen, 

 18.5-23 (21.9); tarsus, 19.5-21.5 (20.7); middle toe, 19.5-21.5 (20.5).« 



Adult feraale.^W'mg, 129.5-139 (135.1); tail, 63-71 (66.4); 

 culmen, 21-24 (22.5) ; tarsus, 20-22.5 (21) ;middle toe, 19-21.5 (20.4).^ 



Breeding in circumpolar regions; in North America, from northern 

 Alaska, Melville Island, northern Ellesmere Land, etc., southward 

 to mouth of Kuskokwim River, Alaska, northern Mackenzie, central 

 Keewatin, Hudson Strait, and southern Greenland; in Eastern 

 Hemisphere, breeding from Iceland to eastern Siberia; migrating 

 southward, over oceans and along sea coasts as far as New Zealand, 

 Falkland Islands, southern Patagonia, Chile (Coquimbo Bay; Val- 

 paraiso Bay; off Juan Fernandez); occasional or casual in Bermudas 

 and Hawaiian Islands (Kauai), and interior of United States during 

 migration. 



[Tringa] fulicaria Linn^us. Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 148 (Hudson Bay; based 

 on Red Coot-footed Tringa Edwards. Nat. Hist., iii, pi. 142); ed. 12, i, 1766. 

 249.— BRUNNiCH,Orn.Bor.. 1764, 51.— Gmeun. Syst. Nat., i. pt.ii. 1789. 676. 



Tringa fulicaria Fabricius, Fauna Groenlandica. 1780. 111. 



Phalaropas fulicarius Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, 1825, 232; 

 Obs. Nomencl. Wilson's Am. Orn., 1826, [196]; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, pt. i, 

 1826, 159; pt. 11, 1827, 341; Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 54.— Lesson, Man. 



