45. MICROPALAMA. 401 



M. griseus, but the flanks and under tail-covorts not so profusely 

 barred, and the under wing-coverts and axillaries entirely white or 

 with obsolete dusky freeklings : " bill black, turning to plumbeous 

 at the base ; legs and toes dark plumbeous, claws black ; iris dark 

 brown." Total length 12-5 inches, culmen 32, wing 6-3, tail 2 - 2, 

 tarsus 1-8. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 13 inches, 

 culmen 3-45, wing 6-7, tail 2*25, tarsus 2-2. 



I have not had the opportunity of examining a specimen of this 

 species in breeding-plumage, but the characters of the winter 

 plumage will doubtless distinguish the bird from M. griseus in 

 summer dress as well. 



Young birds resemble the winter plumage of the adults, but are 

 washed with rusty red on the chest and the sides of the upper 

 breast. 



Hub. Breeding in Eastern Siberia, and wintering in the Burmese 

 countries and near Calcutta. Probably visiting the Chinese coasts 

 also on migration. 



a. 6 ad. ; b. £ ad. Calcutta, Dec. 13. Hume Coll. 



sk. 

 c. <5 juv. ; d. 2 ad. Pegu, Sept. 29 (R W. Oates). Oates Coll. 



sk. 



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Type. 

 Hemipalma, Bp. Speech. Comp. p. 61 (1827 ; nee 1826). M. himantopus. 

 Micropalama, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 726 (1858) .... M. himantopus. 



Eange. Eastern North America, breeding in Canada, migrating in 

 winter to Central America, South America, and the West Indies. 



1 . Micropalama himantopus. 



Tringa himantopus, Bp. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. p. 157 (1826: Long 



Branch, New Jersey, July) ; Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 284 (1828) ; 



Swains. Faun. Bor.-Amer., Birds, p. 380 (1831 : Hayes River); 



Bp. Amer. Orn. iv. p. 89, pi. 25. tig. 3 (1833: Long Isl.) ; Audub. 



Orn. Biogr. iv. p. 332, pi. 344 (1838) ; id. B. Amer. 8vo, v. p. 271, 



pi. 334 (1842); Giraud, B. Long Isl. p. 232 (1844); Brewer, 



Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. vii. p. 308 (1860 : Cuba) ; Schl. Mm. 



Pays-Bas, Scolopaces, p. 54 (1864: Cuba). 

 Tringa (Hemipalma) himantopus, Bp. Sjjecck. Comp. p. 61 (1827). 

 Tringa dougksii, Swains. Faun. Bor.-Amer., Birds, p. 379, pi. 66 



(1831 : Saskatchewan). 

 Long-legged Sandpiper, Nuttall, Man. Orn. ii. p. 138 (1834). 

 Douglas's Stilt Sandpiper, Nnttal/, t. c. p. 141. 

 Audubon's Stilt Sandpiper, Nut tall, t. c. p. 140. 

 Tringa auduboni, Nuttall, t. c. p. 140. 

 Ileniipalama himantopus, Bp. Co-np. List B. Eur. 8c N. Amer. p. 49 



(1838) ; id. C. It. xliii. p. 596 (1856). 

 Hemipalma himantopus, De Kay, Zool. New York, p. 235, pi. 86. 



fig. 196 (1843). 



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