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toe without claw, decidedly less than one-third as long as wing, scu- 

 tellate anteriorly and posteriorly; bare portion of tibia about as 

 long as lateral toes, scutellate before and behind; outer toe slightly 

 longer than inner toe, both decidedly shorter than middle toe ; a very 

 small web between basal phalanges of outer and middle toes, but 

 none between inner and middle toes. 



Coloration. — Under parts and upper tail-coverts mostly white; 

 upper parts grayish brown, in summer blotched with blackish and 

 speckled with whitish, the young speckled with brownish or rusty 

 white only; head and neck streaked with grayish white and dusky; 

 tail barred with dark grayish brown and white. 



Range. — Palsearctic Region (casual in Alaska). (Monotypic.) 



RHYACOPHILUS GLAREOLA (Linnaeus). 



WOOD SANDPIPER. 



Adults in summer (sexes alike). — Pileum dusky, streaked with 

 grayish white; hindneck grayish white (usually shaded with brownish 

 gray along median line), narrowly streaked with dusky; back and 

 scapulars brownish gray irregularly spotted (for the most part trans- 

 versely) with blackish and with less numerous, mostly transverse or 

 triangular, spots of dull whitish; rump darker brownish gray, the 

 feathers narrowly margined with white; lesser wing-coverts nearly 

 uniform dusky brownish gray, the middle coverts similar but with 

 larger dusky and smaller dull whitish or pale grayish irregular spots, 

 especially on proximal coverts; greater coverts and secondaries 

 dusky brownish gray, very narrowly (sometimes indistinctly) edged 

 with whitish; tertials brownish gray, broadly barred with blackish, 

 the grayish interspaces becoming whitish on edges of feathers; alula, 

 primary coverts, and primaries dull blackish or dusky, the shaft of 

 outermost primary white; upper tail-coverts white, mostlyimmaculate, 

 but the longer ones vnth. a few dusky streaks, spots, or bars; tail 

 barred with white and dusky, the former predominating on lateral 

 rectrices, the latter on middle ones; a broad white supraloral stripe or 

 spot, and beneath this a dusky loral streak, distinct and unbroken 

 anteriorly; sides of head beneath eyes white or grayish white, nar- 

 rowly streaked with dusky; chin and throat immaculate white; fore- 

 neck white narrowly streaked with dusky; chest white to pale 

 brownish gray (usually more grayish laterally), spotted and barred 

 with dusky (less so on post-median portion); rest of under parts 

 white, the sides (sometimes flanks also) irregularly barred wdth 

 dusky brownish gray, the under tail-coverts with irregular bars or 

 other markings of the same; axillars and under wing-coverts white, 

 tlie former with irregular narrow bars, the latter with variously 

 shaped markings of brownish gray; bill black, becoming more 

 brownish (ohve in life) basally; iris dark brown; legs and feet 



