EM OLOPA< ID.E— THE SNIPE FAMIEY. -4-7 



Hab. The whole of North and the greater part of South America, ranging south in 

 winter to southern Brazil and Chili; "West Indies in general; Bermudas; frequent in 

 Europe ; North China? (Swixh. Ibis, 1863, 97.) 



Sp. Chae. Adult in summer: Above, light clay-color, the crown, back, scapulars, and 

 tertials washed with light rufous or rusty orchraceous ; the feathers black centrally, pro- 

 ducing conspicuous streaks, which widen into spots on the scapulars and back; rump and 

 middle upper tail-coverts brownish black; lateral upper tail-coverts white, with dusky 

 shaft- streaks. Middle tail-feathers dusky, edged with lighter; other rectrices pale brown- 

 ish gray, bordered with white. Wing-coverts light grayish brown, with paler borders and 

 darker centres; a light superciliary stripe, and a darker loral one. Cheeks, sides of the 

 neck, whole jugulum, and breast, pale clay-color or light grayish buff, streaked with d\ - 

 sides sparsely streaked. Remaining lower parts immaculate white. "Basal half of bill 

 dull greenish yellow." (Nelson, MS.) Adult in -imilar to summer plumage, but 



the rusty tint above almost or wholly absent, and the black markings less sharply defined. 

 Young, first plumage: Quite similar to the summer adult, but the scapulars and outer 

 interscapulars conspicuously tipped externally with white, the breast, etc., more distinctly 

 buff, and rather more narrowly streaked. 



Total length, about 9.00 inches; wing, about 5.00; eulmen, 1.10; tarsus, 1,00-1.10; middle 

 toe. .90. 



This .veil-known Sandpiper is one of the most abundant spe- 

 cies of its family during- its migrations. In the northeastern 

 portion of the State, it i.-. says Mr. Nelson, a very abundant 

 migrant, "sometimes uniting into large flocks containing - 

 eral hundred, and frequenting wet prairies or marsh'-.-. At other 

 times it can only be found singly, scattered over the same ter- 

 ritory. March 25th to May 10th. and the middle of Septem- 

 ber to the first of November. A few remain through the sum- 

 mer, but whether they breed or not I have been unable to decide."' 



Tringa fuscicollis Vieill. 



BONAPAETES SANDPIPER. 

 Popular synonym. White-tail Stile (Plymouth Bay, Mass.). 



Tringa Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xxxiv, 1819,461.— Coces, B.N. W A. <>. 



U. Check List, 1886, No. 240.— Redgw. Man. N. Am B. lv«7. 1". 



>Uis Redgw. Nom. N. Am. I; 

 Am. i,1884. 227. 



sap. Synop. Lm.Orn.iv n'utt. Man. 



li, 1831. 109.— Sw. & Rich. F. B.-A. il, 

 ; B. Am. v. 1812, 275. p 

 Tring v. Crit. Oi- in Baird's B. N. Am. 



part).— Baikd. Cat. N. Am. B. 1- 

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