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bill black; feet greenish-yellow. N. Am., 
SCOLOPACIDA, SNIPE, ETC.—GEN. 220, 221. 261 
tarsus about 2. Above blackish, with a slight greenish reflection, varie- 
gated with tawny and whitish; below, pale tawny of varying shade, 
bleaching on throat and belly; jugulum with streaks, breast and sides with 
arrowheads and bars, of blackish; axillars and lining of wings pure 
white, black-barred; quills blackish, with white bars on the inner webs; 
tail varied with tawny, black and white, chiefly in bars; bill and legs pale, 
former black-tipped. N. Am., abundant, migratory; a highly esteemed 
game bird found usually in flocks, in fields, not necessarily near water ; 
feeds chiefly on insects. WIts., vii, 63, pl. 59, f. 2; Avup., v, 248, pl. 
Some urns, > 1685. CAss..in Bp., 737... . . . .. .* BARTRAMIUS. 
220. Genus TRYNGITES Cabanis. 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper. Bill extremely small. and slender, appearing 
the more so because of the extension of the feathers on its base—on the 
‘upper mandible, quite to the nostrils, nevertheless not reaching nearly so far 
as on the sides of the lower, and the interramal space completely filled ; 
gape reaching beyond base of culmen; basal webbing of toes rudimentary, 
hardly noticeable; tail rounded, with projecting central feathers; 7-8; 
wing 5-53; tail 24; tarsus 1}; middle toe and claw, and bill, under an inch. 
Quills largely white on the inner web, and with beautiful black marbling or 
mottling, best seen from below; tail unbarred, gray, the central feathers 
darker, all with subterminal black edging and white tips; crown and upper 
parts blackish, the feathers with whitish and tawny edging, especially on the 
wings; sides of the head, neck all round, 
and under parts, pale rufous, or fawn color, 
speckled on the neck and breast with dusky ; 
generally distributed in open country, but 
apparently not abundant; a remarkable bird 
both in form and coloration, in the latter 
respect somewhat resembling the foregoing, with which it shares many 
habits. Nurr., ii, 113; Aup., v, 264, pl. 331; Cass. in Bp., 739. RUFESCENS. 
221. Genus HETEROSCELUS Baird. 
Wandering Tatiler. Bill straight, stout, compressed, grooved about § its 
length, gape reaching beyond base of culmen; legs rather short, rugous; 
reticulate, scutellate only in front of the tarsus; outer toe with an evident 
basal web, inner with a rudimentary one; 10$; wing 64; tail 34; bill 13; 
tarsus 14; tail unbarred; plumage variable, generally uniform plumbeous- 
gray above, below white shaded on breast and sides, or barred on the latter, 
with the color of the upper parts. A species of almost universal distribution 
on the coasts and islands of the Pacific, described under at least twelve 
different names, without counting its various generic appellations. //. 
nee ne (ot... sw se  . LINOANUS. 
