BIRDS — SCOLOPACIDAE — TRINGOIDES >rACI'LARICS. 



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toes moderate. Entire upper p«rt« dark lead colored, uniform, and without white marks ; under parts white, with more or less 

 of dark ciui'reous or pluuilu'ous on the sides iiiid neck : under wiiii; coverts white, spotted and harred with dark plumbeous. 

 Quills dark brown : shaft of the first primary white on its upper surface ; shafts of other primaries reddish brown on the upper 

 surface, and white on their under surfaces. Tail dark lead colored, imiform with upper parts of body. Hill dark ; feet greenish. 

 YMiiger. Under parts white, transversely barred with dark ashy brown, especially on the sides and tliiuks. Throat and middle of 

 abdomen white. 



Total leOKtb about 10^ inches ; wing, C^; tail, 3j ; bill, 1^; tarsus, l.{ inches. 



llab. — Washington Territory, (Dr. J. G. Cooper) ; islands in the Pacific ; South America ; northeastern Asia ; Japan ? 



Easily distinguished from any other North American species hy tlio uniform colors of its 

 plumage. Tliis species ranges over an immense extent of locality, embracing nearly all the 

 islands of the Pacific ocean and its coasts from Russian America to Australia. 



Several specimens of this interesting species are in the present collection, all of which were 

 obtained in Washington Territory by Dr. J. G. Cooper. It has quite a profusion of names, a 

 part of which are given above. 



List of specimens. 



V TRINGOIDES, Bon a p. 



Tringoida, Bosap. Saggio di una diet. etc. 1831. Type Tringa hypuUucus, Linn. (Gray.) 

 Actilu, BoiE, Isis, ISH, nGO. Not of Illiger, Prodromus, 1811. 



Cii. — Upper mandible grooved to the terminal fourth ; the bill tapering and rather acute. Cleft of mouth u.ily moderate ; the 

 culmen about five-si.xths the commissure. Feathers extending rather further on side of lower jaw than upper, the former 

 reaching as far as the beginning of the nostrils; those of the chin to about their middle Bill shorter than the head, straight, 

 equal to the tarsus, which is of the length of middle toe and claw. Bare part of tibia half the tarsus. Outer toe webbed to first 

 joint ; inner cleft about to the base. Tail much rounded ; more than half the wing. 



TRINGOIDES MACULARIUS, (L i u n .) Gray. 



Spotted Sandpiper. 



Tringa maeularia, Li»n. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 249.— Wils. Am. Oin. VII, ISlli, 60 ; pi. li.x. 



Totanus maculariut, Tem.mixck, Man. II, 1820, 656.— Bon Obs. Wils. 1S2.">, No. 211 — Nutt. Man II, 1834, 162.— 

 AuD. Orn. Biog. IV, 1838,81; pi. 310.— Is. Syn. 242.— In Birds Amer. V, 1842, 303; pi. 342. 

 Actita maadaritts. Box. List, 1838. 

 Tringoida matvlarim, Ghat, genera. 

 FiGDRKS.— Wif.so», Am. Om. VII, pi. S'J, fig. 1.— Aud. B. of Am. pi. 310, oct. ed. V, pi. 342.— Goui.d, B. of E"rope, IV, 

 pi. 317. — Xaoiasx, B. of Germ. pi. 195. 



Sp. Ch. — Small; bill rather longer than the head, straight, slender; long grooves in both mandibles; wing rather long, 

 pointed; tail medium, rounded; legs rather long; lower third of the tibia naked; toes long, margined, and flattened under- 

 neath ; outer connected with the middle toe by a large membrane ; inner very slightly connected to the middle toe. Upper 

 parts brownish olive green, with a somewhat metallic or bronzed lustre, and with numerous longitudinal line.<, and sagittate, 

 lanceolate, and irregular spots of biownish black, having the same lustre. Line over the eye and entire under parts white, 

 with numerous circular and oval spots of brownish black, smaller on the throat, largest on the abdomen. Quills brown, with 



