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with well-defined black shaft-streaks, the other parts with narrower and 

 less distinct shaft-streaks ; wing-coverts blackish, the median and greater 

 coverts broadly edged with white; primaries dark brown, blacker on the 

 tips and outer webs, the shafts white, a portion of the outer webs of the 

 later ones white; secondaries black, whitish at base and tipped with 

 white; tertiaries rather broadly edged with white; tail pale brown on the 

 outer webs, more or less white on the inner. 'Iris dark brown; l)ill, legs, 

 feet, and claws black." (Armstrong.) Length, 190 ; tail, 51 ; wing, 12"2 ; 

 tarsus, 25; bill from gape, 28." (Gates.) 



''Male in summer plumage. — Differs from the winter plumage in being 

 mottled and not uniform, the upper surface being cinnamon-rufous, 

 mottled with black centers to the feathers, which have hoary whitish or 

 a^hy edges; the inner secondaries cinnamon-rufous like the scapulars and 

 back; sides of lower back and lateral upper tail-coverts pure white; sides 

 of face, throat, and sides of breast deep cinnamon-rufous, mottled with 

 black centers to the feathers; rest of under surface white. Length, 165; 

 culmen, 23; wing, 12-1; tail, 48; tarsus, 23; middle toe with claw, 19. 



"Female in summer plumage. — Similar to the male but has not quite 

 so much bright rufous in the plumage, the fore neck being barred with 

 blackish. Length, 203; culmen, 27: wing, 124; tail, 49; tarsus, 25; 

 middle toe with claw, 20. 



"Young. — Somewhat similar to the winter plumage of the adult but 

 not so uniform above; entire under surface pure white, as also the fore- 

 head and sides of face; center of forehead mottled with blackish to base 

 of bill ; a dusk}' streak between bill and eye, as well as along upper edge 

 of ear-coverts; on sides of breast and on fore neck a tinge of vinous-buff 

 or vinous ; sides of upper breast and of neck distinctly spotted with black ; 

 upper surface black, mottled with spots of white or sandy whitish, these 

 spots being mostly terminal on back and scapulars ; lower l)ack, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts ashy with a sandy buff tip and a subterminal spot of 

 l)lack, and fringed at the tips with a narrow blackish line, giving the rump 

 tiie appearance of being lined transversely with black; feathers of head 

 l)lackish, varied with brown or whitish edges, and forming a more or less 

 distinct cap, which is separated from mantle by the light color of hind 

 neck; mantle ashy streaked with dusk}' brown; wings much as in the 

 winter plumage of the adult but the greater and median coverts, and inner 

 secondaries mottled like the back." (Sharpe.) 



A male taken near Manila in March measures: Wing, 118; tail, 52; 

 exposed culmen, 24; tarsus, 25; middle toe with claw, 19. 



Genus PISOBIA Billberg, 1828. 



Bill slender and straight, a little longer than tarsus; hind toe small and 

 elevated; small sandpipers about 127 mm. in length. 



