160 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



brown. Hub. Xorth Amci-ica in general, breedintj far 



northward; eastern Asia.... 24^.7. T. alpina pacifica 



(CouEs). Red-backed Sandpiper. 



d}. Tarsus one and a balf times as long as the middle toe, with claw ; 



upper tail-coverts entirely white ; head, neck, and lower parts 



rufous or chestnut in summer adult. (Subgenus Ancylochcilus 



Kaup.) 



Summer adult: Head, neck, and lower parts (except anal 

 region and lower tail-coverts), deep cinnamon-rufous or 

 chestnut ; upper parts vai'ied with blackish and rust}-. 

 Winter plumage : Above plain brownish graj', with indis- 

 tinct dusky shaft-streaks ; superciliary stripe, upper tail- 

 coverts, and lower parts, white, the chest indistinctly 

 streaked with grayish. Young : Back and scapulars 

 dusky, the feathers edged with dull buffy or light ochra- 

 ceous, and bordered terminally with whitish ; lesser and 

 middle wing-coverts bordered terminally with dull buff; 

 otherwise much like winter plumage, but chest and sides 

 of breast washed with dull buff. Length about 7.00-9.00, 

 wing 4.80-5.20, culmen 1.38-1.60, tarsus 1.10-1.20. Eggs 

 1.50 X 1-04, pale grayish or greenish buffj-, spotted with 

 deep brown, etc. (hardly distinguishable from eggs of T. 

 macxdata or T. alpina pacifica'). Hab. Eastern Jaemisphero 

 in general; occasional in eastern North America and in 

 Alaska 244. T. ferruginea Brunn. Curlew Sandpiper. 



Genus EURYNORHYNCHUS Nilsson. (Pago 149, pi. XLIV., fig. 3.) 



Species. 



Summer adult : Head, neck, and chest ruslj-, the crown streaked and the back 

 spotted with dusky ; scapulars and tertials lighter rustj', or ochraceous, the central 

 portion of each feather black ; wingcovoils brownish gray, with dusky shaft- 

 streaks; lower parts from breast back, white, the sides more or less spotted with 

 dusky. JVinter plumage : Forehead, cheeks, and entire- under parts white; upper 

 parts (except forehead) dusky, the feathers margined with pale grayish. Young : 

 Back and scapulars dusky, the feathers bordered tcrminallj- with dull whitish, 

 these borders becoming rusty on anterior portion of back and scapulars ; wing- 

 coverts dusky centrally, with still darker shaft-streaks, and margined with brown- 

 ish gray, the greater tipped with white; top of head dull gi-aj-isb, spotted with 

 dusky, the feathers edged with rustj-; rest of head, neck (except behind), and 

 lower ])arts white, clouded with light grayish brown, and suffused with dull buffy 

 anteriorly. Length about G.OO, wing 3.35-3.90, culmen .80-1.00, width of bill near 

 tip about .45, tarsus .80-.90. Hab. Eastern Siberia in summer, straggling across to 

 coast of Alaska (Choris Peninsula); in winter, south to India. 



245. E. pygmseus (Fjinn.). Spoon-bill Sandpiper. 



