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darker, blackish brown with white edges to the feathers; upper tail- 

 coverts pure white; lesser wing-coverts, outer median, and outer greater 

 coverts uniform olive-brown; alula, primary-coverts, and quills blackish 

 brown, secondaries like the back and freckled with tiny white spots on 

 the edges ; tail-feathers white, the center ones with three black bars on the 

 terminal half, these bars disappearing gradually on the lateral feathers, 

 outer ones being entirely white; crown, hind neck, and mantle uniform 

 ashy brown; a supra-loral streak of white; lores dusky, surmounted by 

 an indistinct, white eyebrow, lined with blackish streaks; sides of face, 

 ear-coverts, and cheeks white, rather broadly streaked with blackish 

 brown ; throat white, streaked with brown on the sides ; lower throat, sides 

 of neck, and fore neck also distinctly streaked with brown ; remainder of 

 under surface pure white; sides of upper breast brown, slightly mottled 

 with white ; under wing-coverts and axillars blackish, barred very plainly 

 with white; lower primary-coverts and inner lining of quills uniform, 

 with white dots along the inner edge of the secondaries. 'Bill dusky 

 above, reddish beneath ; feet grayish blue, tinged with green ; iris dusky/ 

 (Macgillivray.) Length, 228 ; culmen, 35 ; wing, 13? ; tail, 56 ; tarsus, 33. 



"Adult male in breeding plumage. Differs from the winter plumage 

 in being much more variegated, the whole of the back being spotted with 

 white, the spots being arranged in pairs on the edges of the feathers, 

 which are also tipped with a bar or twin spots of white ; the whole of the 

 head and neck streaked with white, and the brown streaks on the side of 

 the face, fore neck, and chest very broad and distinct, the sides of the 

 upper breast being brown, very much mottled with bars of white. Length, 

 236; culmen, 35; wing, 137; tail, 55; tarsus, 30. 



"Adult female in breeding plumage. Does not differ in color from the 

 male, but is not quite so strongly marked. Length, 229; culmen, 38; 

 wing, 142; tail, 50; tarsus, 33. 



"Young in autumn plumage. Scarcely differs from the winter plumage 

 of the adult, but, when freshly molted, it has indistinct margins of 

 ashy bronze on the feathers of the upper surface; the tail-bands are 

 narrower on the center feathers, while the subterminal band is broader 

 than in the adults. 



"The change to the summer plumage is apparently effected by a distinct 

 molt, which takes place while the bird is in its winter quarters, and in 

 many instances, especially in the case of the males, the summer plumage 

 is completely assumed before the species leaves for its breeding place." 

 (Sharpe.) 



Genus HETERACTITIS Stejneger, 1884. 



Bill straight, longer than tarsus; back, rump, and tail-coverts uniform 

 in color. 



