Shore-bird Shooting 367 



on a tussock, quivering with excitement, its wings 

 hanging, it " bleats " Hke the Wilson's snipe. 



PRIBILOF SANDPIPER 

 (Tringa ptilocnemis) 



Adult male and female in breeding plumage — Similar to T. mari- 

 tima, but larger, and lighter in coloring; back and scapulars, 

 light clay color, centre of each feather black, their tips whitish ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts, slate, feathers with lighter tips ; 

 wings, plumbeous, the coverts bordered with grayish white ; 

 greater coverts, broadly tipped with white ; several of the inner 

 secondaries, pure white ; primaries, slate, with white shafts ; 

 pileum, light fulvous, streaked with dark ; back of neck, the same 

 color, mixed with gray ; rest of head, including a superciliary 

 stripe and entire lower parts, white ; jugulum, streaked with 

 dusky ; breast, marked with dusky blotches ; flanks and under 

 tail-coverts, narrowly streaked with dusky. 



Adult male and female in winter plumage — Wings, rump, tail- 

 coverts, and tail, and posterior lower parts, as in summer ; 

 remaining upper parts, light gray ; the feathers of the back, dark 

 in the centre, with a faint purplish gloss ; head, light gray ; 

 throat, white ; jugulum and breast, white, irregularly marked with 

 pale gray ; the upper parts are much lighter than in T. maritima. 



Young — Similar to the summer dress of the adult, but the wing- 

 coverts are widely bordered with buff, as are the feathers of the 

 head and neck ; jugulum, light buff, marked with streaks of 

 gray ; bill, feet, and legs, yellowish green ; bill, tipped with dark ; 

 iris, brown. 



Downy young — Similar to T. pt. couesi, but paler; dark markings 

 on lores smaller. 



Measurements — Length, 9.50 inches; wing, 5.25 inches; culmen, 

 1.25 inches; tarsus, i inch. 



Eggs — Four in number ; olive-yellow, with numerous large spots of 

 dark brown; measure 1.55 by i.io inches. 



Habitat — Breeds on St. Matthew, St. Lawrence, and the Pribilof 

 islands. Winters on the coast of southeastern Alaska, in the 

 neighborhood of the Chilkat Peninsula. 



