31 S Synopsis of the Birds 



sippi to the Atlantic shores ; rather common in the autumn 

 on the coast- of New-Jersey. Exceedingly allied to the pre- 

 ceding ; hardly distinguished but by its inferior size, and 

 shorter bill and tarsi. 



250. Triing* pkctorams. Nob. Bill shorter than the head, 

 compressed and reddish-yellow r»t b;i-e ; rump black; mid- 

 dle tail feathers longest ; feet greenish-yellow, tarsus one inch 

 long. 



Summer plumage varied with blark and rufous, beneath 

 white ; breast cinereous, strongly lineated with blackish. 

 Winter, cinereous-brown, beneath white. 



Pectoral Sandpiper, Tringa pect^ralis, Nob. Am. Orn. 

 iii. I J elidna pectoralis, Say in Long's, eocp. 



Inhabits throughout the United States and West Indies : 

 common beyond the Mississippi ; often met with on the coasts 

 of New-Jersey in the latter end of summer. 



251. Tringa platyrhbca, Temm. Bill longer than the head, 

 slightly curved at the point, much depressed and reddish at 

 base ; rump black ; middle tail feathers longest ; feet green- 

 ish-ash ; tarsus less than one inch long. 



Summer plumage varied with black and rufous; beneath 

 pure white: winter, cinereous, beneath white. 



Numenius pygmceus, Lath, nee Btchst. JVaum Vog. t. io. 

 Jig. 22. adult m summer plumage. 



Inhabits both continents: extremely rare in the United 

 States. 



252. Tringa maf.itima, Biunn. Bill longer than the head, 

 hardly curved at the point, compressed and reddish at base ; 

 rump black ; middle tail Feathers longest ; feet yellow; naked 

 space above the tarsus very small. 



Summer dress purplish-black varied with white and rufous, 

 beneath whitish with blackish spots: winter, blackish, beneath 

 whitish streaked with dusky. 



