402 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL, I50 



TRINGA SOLITARIA CINNAMOMEA (Brewster) 



Totanus solitarius cinnamomeus Brewster, Auk, vol. 7, no. 4, Oct. 1890, p. 377. 

 (San Jose del Cabo, Baja California.) 



Characters. — Lighter, more grayish oHve above ; loral area usually 

 with fine scattered dusky spots, instead of a definite bar; inner web 

 of outermost primary usually mottled with white; spotting on back 

 distinctly buff in birds in fall plumage ; larger, wing, males 124-137 ; 

 females 137-142 mm. 



Measurements (from Ridgway, I.e., p. 363). — Males, wing 124-137 

 (132.2), tail 52.5-59.0 (56.2), exposed culmen 27.5-32.0 (30.2), tar- 

 sus 29-32 (30.1) mm. 



Females, wing 137-142 (138.7), tail 56-59 (57,6), exposed culmen 

 29-32 (30.3), tarsus 30-33 (31.7) mm. 



Migrant from the north. Rare ; one record, a female, taken at the 

 lakes at 1,280 meters, near El Volcan, Chiriqui. 



This bird was shot with another of the typical race on March 14, 

 1955. 



This is the western subspecies that nests from central Alaska and 

 MacKenzie to northwestern British Columbia and northeastern 

 Manitoba. It winters mainly in South America, south to central 

 Argentina, so that it may occur with some regularity as a migrant 

 through Panama. 



ACTITIS MACULARIA (Linnaeus): Spotted Sandpiper; Playerito 



Coleador 



Figure 67 



A small sandpiper. In breeding dress, with round black spots on 

 lower surface ; in winter plumage grayish olive-brown above ; mainly 

 white below; teeters the body constantly as it walks; flight usually 

 low with quick strokes of the decurved wings. 



Description. — Length 160 to 175 mm. Breeding dress, above gray- 

 ish olive-brown with irregular fine, duslcy lines and scattered irregular 

 spots and bars on the dorsal surface ; a white line over eye ; wing 

 coverts tipped narrowly with white or buffy white, and barred nar- 

 rowly with black; primaries and secondaries fuscous, the latter, and 

 the inner secondaries, tipped with white; outer tail feathers white, 

 barred with fuscous; under surface white dotted with small, round 

 black spots. 



Winter dress, above grayish olive-brown, with indistinct shaft lines 

 of dull black ; wing coverts as in breeding plumage ; underneath white ; 

 with a dark gray wash on the sides of the neck and upper breast; 

 wings and tail as in breeding plumage. 



