512 CHARA.DRIID.B. 



scapulars, barred with black, and notched and tipped with white ; 

 centre tail-feathers ashy brown, barred with black, the sub-terminal 

 bar broader than the others ; remainder of the feathers tawny buff, 

 broadly tipped with whitish, before which is a broad sub-terminal 

 bar of black, the feathers having also some narrower bands of 

 black, not regular or co-terminous ; crown of head blackish, with a 

 mesial streak of sandy buff, all the feathers also edged with 

 sandy buff ; hind-neck sandy buff, narrowly streaked with black; 

 lores isabelline white ; a broad eyebrow of sandy buff, streaked 

 with black ; sides of face and ear-coverts sandy buff, with narrow 

 streaks and spots of black ; cheeks and throat pxire white ; lower 

 throat, fore-neck, and chest tawny buff, the feathers centred with 

 triangular spots of black, taking the shape of irregular bars on the 

 latter ; breast and abdomen creamy white ; the sides of the body 

 and flanks barred with blackish brown ; thighs and under tail- 

 coverts uniform isabelline buff; under wing-coverts and asillaries 

 white, regularly barred across with black ; quills below ashy, with 

 numerous bars and notches of white along the inner web : " bill 

 yellowish-green, the tip dusky, the edges towards the base yellow ; 

 legs and tarsi light yellowish grey, toes rather darker, claws 

 brownish black : iris dark hazel " (/. J. Audubon). Total length 

 11 inches, culmen 1 - 15, wing 6*5, tail 3*3, tarsus 1*75. 



There appears to be no appreciable difference between the winter 

 and summer plumages of this Sandpiper. In the breeding time the 

 feathers become abraded and the light edgings disappear, leaving 

 the general appearance of the bird blacker than in winter, when 

 the sandy-buff margins are very conspicuous. By the wearing 

 of the margins of the breast-feathers, the bars become much more 

 visible and are of an irregular sagittate shape. In summer plumage, 

 the wings show more of a bronzy gloss than in winter. 



Young. Similar to the adults, but the buff on the head, jugulum, 

 wings, &c. much deeper ; the streaks on the fore-neck and jugulum 

 much less distinct, and the back plain black, the feathers bordered 

 with buff (B., B., $ E.). 



Downy young. Above coarsely and irregularly mottled with 

 black on a greyish-white ground, tinged with light rusty ; lower 

 parts buffy white, with about three blackish spots on the flanks — 

 one beneath the eye, a smaller one on the lores, about halfway 

 between the bill and the eye, and a large, nearly vertical one 

 behind the ears. 



Hab. North America, to South America in winter to Uruguay. 



a, b. d $ ad. sk. N. America ( C. J. Maynard : Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Hensh. Coll.). 

 c, d. 3 ad. et pull. Locust Grove, New York, Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 sk. July (C. H. Merriam -. 



Hensh. Coll.). 



e. $ ad. sk. Waukegan, 111., May (E. W. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Nelson : Hensh. Coll.). 



f. $ ad. sk. Riverdale, 111., July 8 (E. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



W.Nelson: Hensh. Coll.). 



