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under parts ashy- white, tinged with pale reddish, with numer- 

 ous longitudinal stripes of brownish black on the neck, and 

 transverse stripes of the same on the other under parts; axil- 

 lary feathers white; under wing coverts ashy- white; bill and 

 legs greenish-black. 



Length. 9; wing. 5.25; tail, 2.25; bill, 1.75; tarsus, 1.75. 



Habitat, Eastern Province of North America. 



TRINGA CANUTUS L. (234.) 



KNOT. 



There have been two or three years in succession when I 

 failed to find this rather rare Sandpiper, followed by as many 

 more when I would get one or two of them, but for the last ten 

 years I find more of them in the market, brought ' ' from 

 beyond the Big Woods," than I find anywhere else. 



They are found single in the spring migrations, or at most 

 in pairs, but in the late summer and fall they are invariably 

 mingled with other species. Their stay is very short in the 

 spring, but in the fall they remain until November. There is 

 little in their habits while with us to distinguish them from 

 the other members of the family. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 



Bill straight, rather longer than the head, compressed and 

 slightly enlarged at the tip; upper mandible with the nasal 

 groove extending to near the tip; legs moderate; tibia with its 

 lower third naked; neck, moderate; wing, long; tail, short; toes, 

 free at base, flattened beneath, widely margined, hind toe small 

 j^and slender; entire upper parts light gray, with lanceolate, 

 inear and irregular spots of black, and others pale-reddish; 

 •"^ump and upper tail coverts white, with transverse narrow 

 bands and crescent shaped spots of black; under parts light 

 brownish-red, paler in the middle of the abdomen; under tail 

 coverts, tibial feathers, flanks, axillary feathers, and under 

 wing coverts white, generally with spots and transverse bars 

 of brownish-black; quills brownish-black with their shafts 

 white; tail, light brownish-cinereous without bars or spots, all 

 the feathers edged with white, and frequently with a second 

 sub edging of dark-brown; bill, brownish- black; legs, greenish 

 black. 



Length, 10; wing, 6.50; tail, 2.50, commissure, 1.50; tarsus 

 1.25. 



Habitat, nearly cosmopolitan. 



