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almost as plentifully developed as in the adults; the bars on the 

 axillaries are often incomplete, and are, in rare instances, entirely 

 absent."" 



Downy young. — General color pale grayish buff (nearly tilluel buflf), 

 slightly deeper on head and under parts; a median stripe on fore- 

 head (not extending to bill), two broader stripes on posterior portion 

 of crown and occiput, a postocular streak (broader posteriorly), an 

 irregular stripe down median portion of nape and hindneck, and 

 -rregular stripes and spots on back, rump, and wings, dusky grayish 

 brown or fuscous. 



Adult male.— Wmg, 228-247 (237.7); tail, 96-102 (98.7); exposed 

 culmen, 75-87.5 (81.2); tarsus, 56-58 (56.7); middle toe, 33-36 

 (34.5)." 



Adult female.— Wing, 233-255 (240.5); tail, 92-104 (99.3); ex- 

 posed culmen, 77-90 (82.8); tarsus, 55-63.5 (59.6); middle toe, 

 33.5-36.5 (34.9).'= 



Breeding in the arctic and subarctic districts of Europe and western 

 Asia, from Iceland, Faro, Shetland, and Orkney islands and northern 

 portions of Scandinavian peninsula to the valley of the Petchora 

 River, northward to Spitzbergen, Jan Mayen Land, etc.; migrating 

 southward to the Azores and Canary islands, Madeira, Cape Verde 

 Islands, Cape of Good Plope, Madagascar, Seychelles, Aden, India, 

 Ceylon, etc.; frequent in southern Greenland, and accidental on 

 Sable Island south of Nova Scotia (1 spec, May 25, 1906). 



[Scolopox] phxopns Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 146 (Sweden); ed. 12, 

 i, 1766, 24.3.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 657.— Turton, Syst. Nat., 

 i, 1806, 394, part. 

 Scolopax phxopus Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, 51 (PI. Pail., pi. 842).— 



Lesson, Traits d'Orn., 1831, 560. 

 [Nuinenius\ phxopus Latham, Synopsis Birds, Siippl., i, 1787, 291; Index Orn.. 

 ii, 1790, 711.— Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 42, no. 10249.— Sharpe, Hand-list, 

 i, 1899, 158.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1897, 189 (Mozambique).— 

 Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, no. 2, 1899, 69. 

 Nnmenius phxopus Temminck, Man. d'Orn., ii, 1820, 604. — Roux, Orn. Prov., 

 1825, pi. 307. — Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., ii, 1826, 169, part. — Bonaparte, 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 444; Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 49.— Menetries, 

 Cat. Rais. Caucas., 1832, 50 (Caucasus). — Gould, Birds Europe, iv, 1837, 

 pi. 303 and text; IMrds Great Brit., iv, 1871, pi. 49 and text. — Webb and 

 Berthelot, Orn. Canar., 1840, 37. — NoRDMANN,inDemid.,Voy. Russ.M^rid., 

 iii, 1840, 255.— Selys-Longchamps, Fauna Beige, 1842, 131. — Yarrell, 



"Sharp, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv. 358. 



b Three specimens. 



c Eight specimens. 



Extreme and averages of a series of P. p. variegatus are as follows: 



Adult male (5 specimens).— Wing, 211-239 (227); tail, 88-100 (92.4); exposed cul- 

 men, 66-79.5 (73); tarsus, 52-59 (55.5); middle toe, 32-35 (33.7). 



Adult female (3 specimens).— Wing, 2,32-242 (237.7); tail, 87-98.5 (93); exposed 

 culmen, 74.5-87 (78.8); tarsus, 55-57 (56.2); middle toe, 34-35 (34. 7j. 



