170 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



a'. Summer aJuIt with lower parts marked everywhere with roundish spots of 

 blackish. Winter adult : Above plain grayish olive, with a faint bronze gloss, 

 with no markings except dusky shaft-streaks, except on wing-coverts, which 

 are more or less ban-ed with dusky ; lower parts immaculate white, faintly 

 shaded across chest with brownish graj-, most distinct laterally. Young: 

 Similar to winter plumage, but wing-coverts, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts 

 more or less barred with pale dull buff and dusky. Doicny young : Above 

 yellowish gray, with a narrow black stripe down back, continued anteriorly 

 to the bill ; a narrow black line on each side of head, through ej'e ; lower 

 parts dull white. Length about 7.00-8.00, wing 4.05-1.60, culmen .90-1.05, 

 tarsus .90-1.05. Eggs 2-5, 1.25 X -90, short-ovate, buffy, more or less thickly 

 speckled and spotted with dark brown and black. Hah. Whole of North 

 America ; south, in winter, through West Indies, Middle America, and northern 

 South America to Brazil • accidental or occasional in Europe. 



263. A. macularia (Linn.). Spotted Sandpiper, 

 a'. Summer adult with lower parts plain white, except chest, which is pale brownish 



gray, streaked with darker. 



Other plumages very similar to corresponding stages of A. macularia; 

 length about 6.50-7.50, wing 3.80-4.40, culmen 1.00-1.05, tarsus .95-1.05. 

 Ilab. Northern portions of eastern hemisphere, east to Commander 

 Islands, Kamtschatka. 



A. hypoleucos (Liyy.). ' Common Sandpiper (of Europe).' 



Gents NUMENIUS Brissox. (Page 149, pi. XLIX., fig. 2.) 



Species. 

 a'. Feathers of thighs without lengthened bristlj- points. 

 6'. Rump not white. 



c\ Secondaries and quills rusty cinnamon, the outer webs of latter dusky ; 

 axillars deep cinnamon, without distinct bars ; lower parts pale cin- 

 namon. 

 Above pale cinnamon, tinged here and there with grayish, varied, 

 transversely, with blackish, the top of head narrowly streaked 

 with dusky, but without median light stripe ; secondaries and 

 quills cinnamon-rufous, the outer webs of the latter dusky. 

 Doicny young : Buffy yellow, deeper above, tinged with sulphur- 

 yellow beneath ; upper parts coarsely and irregularly marbled 

 with black ; bill straight, about 1.40 long. Length about 20.00- 

 26.00, wing 10.00-11.00, culmen 2.30 (young of year)-8.50, tar- 

 sus 3.00-3.50. Eggs 2-4, 2.59 X 1-Sl, light grayish buff or pale 

 buffy brown, spotted, blotched, or speckled with umber-brown. 

 JIab. Whole of temperate Xorth America, migrating south to 

 Guatemala, Cuba, and Jamaica. 



264. N. longirostris Wils. Long-billed Cnrlew. 



1 Trlnga hgpoleucotl.lJ!n., S. N. ed. 10, i. 1758, 149. .lc(i'(i'« hi/jjoUiicoi BoiE, Isis, 1S22, 560. 



