No. 53. 



Tringa canutus. 



Adult in spring. Upper parts a mixture of liglit bujff, gray, 

 black, dull brown, and grayish white ; the feathers near the 

 tail (upper tail coverts) barred with brownish black and white. 

 Under parts uniformly reddish buff or orange brown, sometimes 



fading to white on the lower part of belly ; this reddish color 

 much like that on the breast of our common garden robin. 



Adult in autumn. Above almost uniformly gray. Below 

 nearly white, having little or no robin color; front of neck, 

 breast, and sides streakily freckled and otherwise flecked with 

 dusky. 



Young. Upper parts gray, with crescent - like dusky and 

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