156 BAY-BIRDS. 
gined with the same color; hind part and sides of 
the neck yellowish-brown, streaked with dusky ; 
fore part of the neck and breast paler, with pointed 
streaks of dusky; sides of the body barred with the 
same; rest of lower parts yellowish-white; lower 
wing-coverts white, barred with brownish-black ; 
upper plumage dark-brown, margined with yellow- 
ish-brown, darker on the hind part of the back; 
primaries dark-brown ; coverts the same color ; inner 
webs of the primaries barred with white, more par- 
ticularly on the first—the shaft of which is white ; 
the rest brown, all tipped with white; secondaries 
more broadly tipped with the same; coverts and 
scapulars dark-brown, margined with yellowish- 
brown, and tipped with white; tail barred with 
black and yellowish-brown, tipped with white ; mid- 
dle feathers darker, tipped with black. Length ten 
inches and a half, wing six and _ five-eighths.”— 
Giraud. 
Rep-BackEp SANDPIPER. 
Winter Snipe.—Black-breast. 
Tringa Alpina, Wils. 
This bird absolutely has no common name, 
“Specific Character.—Bill about one-third longer 
than the head, bent towards the end; length of tarsi, 
one inch. Adult with the bill black—one-third 
longer than the head, slightly bent towards the end, 
and rather shorter than that of T. Subarquata; 
upper part of the head, back, and scapular, chestnut- 
