68. TR1NG1TES. 523 



Bull. U. S. Agric. no. 2, p. 97 (1888 : Mississippi Valley) ; Cory, B. 

 West Ind. p. 240 (188!)); Dutcher, Auk, vi. p. 136 (1889: Long'lsl.); 

 Cherrie, Auk, ix. p. 332 (1890: Costa Rica); id. Auk, ix. p. 329 

 (1892); Mackay, t. c. p. 389 (Nantucket Id.); Hatch, B. Min- 

 nesota, p. 142 (1892) ; Cory, Cat. B. West Ind. p. 94 (1892 : Greater 

 Antilles, Cuba and Barbados) ; Allen, Auk, x. p. 125 (1893). 



Adult male. General colour above mottled, the feathers being 

 black, with sandy-coloured edges , the scapulars like the back ; the 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts like the rest of the back, 

 but the sandy margins deeper in colour and not so distinct, the 

 lateral tail-coverts being whitish, with a sub-terminal line of brown ; 

 outer lesser wing-coverts black, fringed with white ; the remainder 

 of the coverts brown, with blackish centres and pale edges, the greater 

 series with some irregular sub-terminal lines of blackish ; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and primaries brown, tipped with white, with 

 a sub-terminal shade or bar of black : the inner webs marbled with 

 black; the secondaries white, marbled with black near the ends 

 and having a black sub-terminal bar; long inner secondaries blackish, 

 with broad sandy-buff edges ; centre tail-feathers blackish brown ; 

 the remainder pale ashy brown, tipped with white, before which is 

 a broad sub-terminal bar of black, the outer feathers with other inter- 

 rupted narrow bars of black ; crown of head like the back, but the 

 black markings smaller than on the latter ; base of forehead, lores, 

 a narrow eyebrow, sides of face, and under surface of body rufescent 

 buff, the feathers slightly obscured by whitish margins ; the chin 

 whitish ; the sides of the upper breast spotted with black, the 

 centres of the feathers streaked and spotted with black ; under 

 wing-coverts white, the inner ones beautiful rufescent buff : axil- 

 laries white ; the lower primary-coverts marbled with black ; quills 

 below white, marbled with black along the inner web : " bill dull 

 olive-green, dusky towards the point ; feet dull yellowish green, 

 claws dusky; iris hazel " (J. J. Aududon). Total length 8 inches, 

 culmen 0-95, wing 5-1, tail 2-4, tarsus 1'2. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour, but the black mar- 

 blings on the inner web of the primaries not so distiuct. Total 

 length 7*5 inches, culmen - 85, wing 5, tail 2-15, tarsus 1*05. 



Young birds. Differ from the adults in having whitish edgings to 

 the feathers of the upper surface ; the lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts with dark sandy-buff margins ; the black sub- 

 terminal bar on the primary-coverts and bastard-wing not so dis- 

 tinct, and the secondaries nearly uniform ashy brown, with white 

 towards the base of the inner web, but only a little black marbling 

 near the ends ; the black spots on the sides of the breast very 

 minute, and the black marbling on the lower primary-coverts and 

 inner webs of the quills much less distinct than in the adults. 



Hab. North America generally in summer, breeding in the high 

 north, and migrating in winter to Amazonia, Brazil, and Paraguay. 

 Accidental in Europe. 



a-e. c? ad. ; f,g. Point Barrow, Alaska, June Salvin-Godman Coll. 



$ ad. sk. (J. Murdoch : Hensh. Coll.). 



h,i. cjad.sk. St. Michael's, Alaska, Mav (E. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



W. Nelson : Hensh. Coll.). 



