68 BIRDS OF ILLINOIS. 



throat, largest on the abdomen. Primaries plain duslcy ; tail darlc ashy, the outer feathers 

 with dusky and white transverse spots on their ti-rminal portion; axillars immaculate 

 white. Yoiino: Above, greenish ashy, the wings witli narrow transverse bars of black and 

 buffy most numerous on the coverts. Beneath, white, without any spots, and with 

 an ashy suffusion across the jugulum. Downy cli id:: Above, yellowish gray, with a nar- 

 row black dorsal stripe from the bill to the tail; a narrow black line through the eye. Be- 

 neath, duU white. 



Total length, about 7.75 inches; extent, 13.00-14.00; wing, 4.05-1.30: culmen, .90-1.00: tarsus 

 .90-1.05; middle toe, .70.-80. Mandib'e and edge of the maxilla pale wax-yellow tin life); rest 

 of bill black; iris dark brown; tarsi and toes pale grayish oUve. 



Tliis is probably the most generalh' distributed .species of the 

 family, since it is to be found along the banks of nearly every 

 stream, large or small, in the land. 



In Cook county, the Spotted Sandpiper is, according to Mr. 

 Nelson, a "very common summer resident." Mr. Nelson's note 

 concerning it continues as follows: "Arrives in April and departs 

 late in autumn. Breeds in abundance among the small sand 

 hills, along the Lake shore. Near Waukegan, the first of June, 

 1876, I saw Mr. T. H. Douglas secure over two dozen of their 

 eggs in considerably less than an hour. The nests were generally 

 placed under a small shrub or in a thin tuft of grass and the 

 eggs could be seen several yards away." 



Genus TRYNGITES CAiiANis. 



Trvngites Cab. Jom-n. fur. Orn. 185C, 418. Type, Tringa rnfescens Vieill.,= 7'. suhru- 



ficoW.I ViEILL. 



Chak. Upper mandible gi-ooved to about the terminal fourth; the lower not quite so 

 far. Culmen and gonys about straight. Mouth deeply cleft more than half way to the eye: 

 the culmen about two thirds the commissure. Culmen much shoiter than the head, and 

 about equal to middle toe without claw. Tarsus about one and one sixth as long as middle 

 toe and claw. Bare part of tibia decidedly shorter than middle too without claw. Toes 

 cleft to the base, with only a very rudimentary web. Upper jaw feathered to the nostrils; 

 the side of the lower, and beneath, feathered much farther, or to the end of the nostrils: the 

 interspace of the rami entirely filled. Tail somewhat graduated, not half the wing. 



Tryngites subruficollis (Vieill.) 



BUFFBREASTED SANDPIPER 



Tringa stihrtiflcoUis ViEiu,. Nouv. Diet, xxxiv, isili, li-V 

 Triinoiicf suhnijicollis HiDow. Troc. D. S. Nat. Mus. viii, 18&">, S5tl; Man. N. Am. B. 



1887, 169— A. O. U. Check List, 1S86, No. 2(i2. 

 Tringa nifescens Vieill. Nouv. Diet, xxxiv. 1819, 470 (Louisiana).— NuTT. Man. ii, 1834, 



113.— AUD. Orn. Biog. iii, ISS.^ 451, pi. 2ffi; Synop. 1.S39. 235; B. Am. v, 1842. 264. pi. 271. 

 Trungiles rK/psien.s Caban. J. t. O. 18.Mi, 418 (Cuba).— Cass, in Baird's B. N. Am. ia58, 



7.39.— Baird. Cat. N. Am. B. 1S.W, No. 5I(;.— CouES, Key, 1872, 260; Check List, 1S7S, No. 



439; 2d ed. 1882, No. nil; B. N. W. 1S74, .W6.— RiDOW. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, No, .W6.— B. 



B. & R. Water B. N. Am. i, 1881. 305. 

 Aciidnrus na-viiis RKK^w.Proii. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. vii, 18.>l, 178; Pacific R. R. Rep. z, 



pt. vi, 1859, 20, pi. 6 (Texas). 



