SHORE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 65 



GENUS TRYNGITES CABANIS. 

 TRYNQ1TES SUBRUFICOLLIS 

 Puff -breasted Sandpiper. 



Summer plumayc : Upper plumage, buff, 

 mottled with black ; the feathers on the back, 

 black, edged with buft'; under parts, having 

 a mottled buft* and white appearance, caused 

 by the exposed portion of the feathers being 

 buff, narrowly tipped with white ; the feathers 

 are dark slate color at base, but the, slate color 

 is entirely concealed; inner web of first 

 primary, white, speckled with dark brown ; 

 the inner primaries and secondaries, narrowly 

 tipped with white, showing a sub-terminal 

 baud of black; axillars, white. 

 Tryugiteti subruticolliir Winter plumage : Similar, but paler. 



Length, 8; wing, 5.30; tarsus, 1.25; bill, .85. 



Not abundant on the Atlantic const, usually keeping to the interior. It 

 breeds from British America northward 

 to the Arctic Ocean. It ranges, in win- 

 ter, south to South America. 



, . First primary. 



I he eggs are described as three or 



four, pale, buft' white, spotted and lined with dark brown and purplish 

 brown. 



