564 CHARADRIID^:. 



Actodromas (Actodromas) maculata, Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Philad. 1861, p. 197. 

 Actodromas maculata, Yerrill, Proc. Essex Inst. iii. p. 153 (1862 : 

 Oxford Co., Maine) ; Boardm. Proc. Post. Soc. Nat. Hist. ix. p. 128 

 (1862 : Calais, Maine) ; Allen, Proc. Essex Inst. iv. p. 77 (1864: 

 Springfield, Mass.); Mcllwr. op. cit. v. p. 93 (1866: Hamilton, 

 Canada West); Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 294 (1866); 

 Coues, Proc. Essex Inst. v. p. 294 (1868 : New England) ; Allen, 

 Mem. Post. Soc. N H. i. p. 501 (1868 : Western Iowa) ; Coues, Proc. 

 Post. Soc. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 122 (1868: S. Carolina); Hall Sf 

 Bann. Trans. Chic. Acad. i. p. 292 (1869) ; Gundl. J. f. O. 1875, 

 p. 328 (Cuba) ; id. Orn. Cubana, p. 176 (1876) ; Lawr. Pull. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. no. iv. p. 47 (1876 : Tehuantepec City, Oct.) ; Ridgw. 

 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 199 (1880); Coues, Check-l. N. Amer. 

 B. p. 101 (1882) ; Bean, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 164 (1882 : 

 Point Belcher, Alaska) ; Steams, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 119 

 (1883 : Labrador) ; Baird, Brewer, 8f Pidgway, Water-Birds N. 

 Amer. i. p. 232 (1884); Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 626 

 (1884) ; Nelson, Auk, i. p. 218 (1884 : Alaska) ; Murdoch, Exped. 

 Point Barrow, Alaska, p. Ill (1885) ; Drew, Auk, ii. p. 18 (1885 : 

 Colorado); Murdoch, t. c. p. 63 (Point Barrow) ; Agersb. t. c. 

 p. 286 (S.E. Dakota) ; Turner, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. viii. p. 246 

 (1885 : Labrador) ; Wells, op. cit. ix. p. 628 (1887 : Grenada). 



Limnocinclus pectoralis, Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 254 (1865) ; 

 id. B. Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 67 (1870). 



Tringa maculosa, Moore, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xix. p. 241 (1877 : 

 Fortune Isl., Bahamas). 



Tringa acuminata pectoralis, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 443 

 (1888). 



Limnocinclus maculatus, Heine $• Peic/ien. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. 

 p. 329 (1890: Carlisle, U.S.A. ; Mexico). 



Tringa bairdi (nee Coues), Aplin, Ibis, 1894, p. 2C9 (Uruguay). 



Adult male in breeding-plumage. Similar to H. acuminata (infra, 

 p. 568), but never so rufous, with a more blackish head contrasting 

 with the ashy brown of the hind-neck. It may always be distin- 

 guished from H. acuminata by the greater extent of the ashy- 

 fulvous colour, which reaches from the upper throat to the chest 

 and is thickly and regularly streaked with dusky blackish, instead 

 of being rufous with black spots : " bill greenish black, olive-green 

 at base ; legs clay-yellow ; iris dark brown " (H. E. Dresser). 

 Total length 8 inches, culmen 1*15, wing 5 - 55, tail 2'4, tarsus 1-1. 

 Adult female. Similar to male. Total length 8 inches, culmen 1*1, 

 wing 4*9, tail 1-9, tarsus 1. 



Adidt in winter plumage. Differs very little from the summer 

 plumage, but is browner and with less rufous on the upper surface, 

 the head and neck being of the same colour as the back ; the 

 character of the throat and fore-neck is exactly the same as that of 

 the summer plumage. 



Young. Much more rufous than either the breeding or winter 

 plumage, and distinguished by the whitish margins to the scapulars 

 and inner secondaries. The young birds appear to have almost as 

 much striping on the throat and breast as the old ones : in this 

 respect it differs from the young of H. acuminata, where the stripes 

 are confined to the lower throat and sides of neck. 



