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233 Micropalama himantopus (Bonaparte). 

 Stilt Sandpiper. 



Adults in spring. — Length, 7.50-9.25. Wings, 5-5.25. Black above, streaked 

 or mottled and edged with buff and rusty ; rump and upper tail-coverts barred 

 black and white ; a cinnamon rufous patch from the eye over the ear-coverts 

 and another from over the eyes around the back of the neck ; under parts, pale 

 cinnamon, streaked on the neck and barred elsewhere with black. 



/n autumn. — Tail-coverts and rump barred black and white ; rest of upper 

 parts, ashy-gray ; lower parts, white, streaked with gray on the chest, sides of 

 neck and under tail-coverts. 



Young in first autumn. — Upper tail-coverts white, back edged with buff; 

 under parts, dull white, tinged with buff and obscurely streaked with gray. 



Rare transient on the coast, and according to Dr. C. C. Abbott, 

 single specimens have been killed on the Delaware at Trenton. 



The type specimen was shot by Bonaparte^ from a flock at Long 

 Branch, in the middle of July, 1826. 



Turnbnll (1869) states that it occurs in May and again in August, 

 but gives no definite records. One New Jersey specimen is in his 

 collection from Brigantine Beach. 



In 1879, between July 15th and September 15th, Dr. Jonathan 

 Dwight^ secured ten specimens at Squan Beach ; Mr. W. L. Baily got 

 two from a flock of four at Cape May August 11th, 1897, and on 

 August 20th, 1897, got another from a flock of three on Two Mile 

 Beach. 



234 Tringa canutus Linnaeus. 

 Knot, Grayback, Robin-snipe. 



PLATE 20. 



Adults in spring. — Length, 10-11. Wing, 6.50. Above, pale gray, irregularly 

 streaked and mottled with black ; rump and upper tail-coverts barred black 

 and white; under parts, pale cinnamon rufous; flanks, under tail-coverts (and 

 sometimes belly), white, with some dusky streaks. 



In autumn. — Ashy-gray above, except rump and upper tail-coverts, which are 

 barred black and white ; below, white with dusky streaks on foreneck, chest 

 and sides. 



Young in first autumn. — Similar, but feathers of back narrowly edged with 

 black and tipped with whitish ; under parts, white, finely mottled or streaked 

 with dusky on breast and sides. 



' Ann. Lye, N. Y., IL, p. 157. 



= Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 1879, p. 63. 



