210 AVES GRALLATORES. [TRINGA. 



to the end of the wing four inches eight lines: breadth, wings extended, 

 fourteen inches seven lines. 



DESCRIPT. (Winter plumage.) Throat, and a streak from the base of 

 the upper mandible to the eye, pure white : head, back of the neck, and 

 all the upper parts, cinereous brown, the shafts of the feathers being of a 

 darker tint ; quills dusky ; greater wing-coverts tipped with white : lower 

 part of the neck and breast grayish white, mottled with pale cinereous 

 brown; belly, vent, and under tail-coverts, pure white: rump and two 

 middle tail-feathers dusky brown; the other tail-feathers brownish ash, 

 edged with white: bill black: irides and legs dusky brown. (Summer 

 plumage.) Throat white ; cheeks, sides and fore part of the neck, and 

 breast, reddish white, with fine longitudinal streaks of black; belly and 

 abdomen, during the period of incubation, deep black, but afterwards 

 mixed with white : crown of the head black, the feathers edged with red- 

 dish brown ; back, scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts, deep black, all the 

 feathers broadly edged with reddish brown, and tipped with grayish 

 white; quills and greater coverts dusky brown, the latter tipped with 

 white : two middle tail-feathers blackish brown ; the rest cinereous edged 

 with white. (Spring and autumn, at the time of change.) Throat and 

 eye-streak white ; upper parts dusky brown, tbe feathers edged with red- 

 dish yellow; amongst them several cinereous brown, as in winter: wing- 

 coverts wholly cinereous brown, without any red : neck and breast reddish 

 yellow, spotted with brown; belly white, more or less spotted and blotched 

 with dusky brown; vent and under tail-coverts pure white. Obs. The 

 female is somewhat larger than the mate, and has a longer bill. In 

 young birds, the bill is nearly straight. (Egg.) Greenish white, blotched 

 and spotted with two shades of dark red brown : long. diam. one inch four 

 lines and a half; trans, diam. eleven lines and a half. 



A common species on all parts of the coast during the greater part 

 of the year. At the approach of the breeding season, retires to inland 

 marshes and the banks of rivers. Lays four eggs. Food, worms and 

 insects. Obs, The Purre of authors is this species in its winter plumage. 



206. T. pectoraliSj Bon. (Pectoral Sandpiper.) 

 " Bill shorter than the head, compressed and reddish 

 yellow at the base : rump black : middle tail-feathers 

 longest : feet greenish yellow : tarsus one inch." BON. 



T. pectoralis, Bon. Syn. p. 318. Id. Amer. Orn. vol. iv. p. 43. 

 pi. 23. f.2.* Pectoral Sandpiper, Nuttall, Orn. of Unit. States, 

 vol. ii. p. 111. 



DIMENS. Entire length about ten inches : length of the bill (from the 

 rictus) rather more than one inch ; of the tarsus one inch. NUTT. 



DESCRIPT. " Summer plumage, varied with black and rufous, beneath 

 white; breast cinereous, strongly lineated with blackish. Winter plumage, 

 cinereous brown, beneath white." BON. 



Mr Yarrell informs me that a single individual of this species, which is 

 not uncommon in the United States, has been killed at Yarmouth. It is 

 at present in the possession of Mr Hoy of that place. Its identity with 

 the T. pectoralis of America was confirmed by Mr Audubori, to whom 

 the specimen was submitted for examination. 



The above reference to Bonaparte's American Ornithology is on the authority of Nuttall. 

 I have not been able to get sight of the fourth volume of that work myself. 



