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Description. Above brown varied with blackish ; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts blackish : beneath white, neck and sides of breast pale fulvous-brown, 

 with blackish shaft -stripes ; bill and feet black : whole length 6'8 inches, wing 

 4-5, tail 2-1. Female similar. 



Tail-feathers of BAIIID'S SANDPIPER. 

 (Seebohm's < Plovers,' p. 444.) 



Hab. Arctic America, migrating south to Patagonia in winter. 



This is likewise an Arctic- American species which visits South Ame- 

 rica in winter. I have met with it in small flocks near Buenos Ayres in 

 April and May ; and it has also been procured in Chili. 



401. TRINGA FUSCICOLLIS, Vieill. 

 (BONAPARTE'S SANDPIPER.) 



Tringa fuscicollis, Scl et Salv. Nomencl. p. 145 j Durnford, Ibis, 1878, p. 68 

 (Buenos Ayres) et p. 404 (Centr. Patagonia) ; White, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 42 

 (Buenos Ayres) ; Sorrows, Auk, 1884, p. 314 (Entrerios) ; Saunders, TarreWs 

 Birds, iii. p. 373. Tringa bonapartii, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 144, et 

 1873, p. 455 (Buenos Ayres) ; Seebohm, Plovers, p. 445. Actodromas fusci- 

 collis, Baird, Brew., et Bidgw. Water-B. N. A. i. p. 227. 



Description. Above brownish grey, varied and spotted with black ; super- 

 ciliaries white ; rump grey, upper tail-coverts white : beneath white ; breast 

 and flanks spotted and streaked with blackish : whole length 7*0 inches, wing 

 4-8, tail 2-1. Female similar. 



Hab. Arctic America, migrating south to Patagonia in winter. 

 Bonaparte's Sandpiper is a third of the same category of Arctic 

 Tringa that range far south after the breeding-season. Durnford found 



