50. TIUNG0IDES. 471 



Actiturus macularius, Reichenb. Grail, tab. lxxiv. tig. 591, ccclviii. 



figs. 2811-12 (1850). 

 Artitis notata, Bp. C. 11. xliii. p. 597 (1850). 



Tringites raacularius, 8cl. § Salv. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 309 (Chamicuros). 

 Totauus hypoleucus, var. macularius, Hidgw. Ann. Lye. N. Y. x. 



p. 384 (i874 : Illinois). 



Adult male in breeding-plumage. Similar to T. hypoleucus, but 

 mucb more strongly barred with black on the upper surface, and 

 thickly spotted with black underneath ; the size is also smaller, 

 and, in the skin, the bill is almost entirely fleshy yellow ; the inner 

 secondaries likewise show less white than in the allied species : 

 " bill greenish-olive above, yellow beneath, the point of both man- 

 dibles black ; feet pale yellowish flesh-colour, claws black ; iris 

 hazel" (J. J. Audubon). Total length 0-5 inches, culmen 1, wing 4, 

 tail 1-85, tarsus 0-85. 



Adult female in breeding-plumage. Similar to the male, and quite 

 as heavily spotted below. Total length 6*5 iuches, culmen - 95, 

 wing 4*1, tail 2, tarsus 0-85. 



Young. Differs from the adult in being more olive-brown, and 

 entirely wanting the black spots of the under surface ; the upper 

 surface barred across with reddish brown and black. It, therefore, 

 closely resembles T. hypoleucus in young and winter plumages, but 

 may be distinguished by the more yellow mandible, and by having 

 the broad sub-terminal band continuous throughout the secondaries, 

 instead of having the inner secondaries for the most part white. 



Adult in ivinter plumage. More olive-brown than in summer, and 

 lacking the bronzy shade ; the under surface of the body white, 

 with few or no shaft-lines of brown on the fore-neck and chest, and 

 having the sides of the upper breast ashy brown. 



Young in down. Above yellowish grey, with a narrow black 

 dorsal stripe from the bill to the tail : a narrow black line through 

 the eye : beneath dull white, (liidgwag.) 



Uab. North America generally, migrating south in winter 

 through Central America and the West Indies to Amazonia and 

 Brazil. Accidental iu Europe. 



