156 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



adult, but lighter tints above more rusty, the scapulars 

 and outermost interscapulars tipped exteriorly with 

 white, the chest, etc., more buffy and more narrowly 

 streaked. Length 8.00-9.50, wing about 5.00-5.50, cul- 

 men 1.10-1.20, tarsus 1.00-1.10. Eggs 1.44 x 1-02, pale 

 grayish buff varying to pale olive-greenish, boldly and 

 heavily blotched with rich vandyke-brown and clouded 

 with purplish gray. Hob. Nearly the whole of Amer- 

 ica, but in summer confined to Arctic and subarctic 

 districts ; occasional in Europe. 



239. T. maculata VIEILL. Pectoral Sandpiper. 

 e*. Eump dusky, the feathers bordered with pale grayish, buffy, 



or whitish. 

 f 1 . Upper tail-coverts all white, but sometimes marked with 



dusky. 



g l . Wing less than 5.50. Summer adult: Top of head 

 buffy, broadly streaked with black; back and scap- 

 ulars mixed light brownish gray and grayish buff, 

 tinged more or less with rusty ochraceous, and 

 broadly striped with blackish, these markings 

 more wedge-shaped on scapulars; upper tail-cov- 

 erts white, often nearly or quite immaculate, 

 sometimes with a few, mostly concealed, sagittate 

 or Y-shaped, marks of dusky ; superciliary stripe 

 and lower parts white ; sides of head and neck, 

 fore-neck, chest, and sides, streaked with dusky, 

 these streaks broadest and most distinct on chest, 

 sparser, larger, and more cuneate or V-shaped on 

 flanks. Winter plumage : Upper parts plain brown- 



ish gray, with indistinct narrow mesial streaks 



of dusky; otherwise as in summer, but streaks 

 on chest, etc., less distinct. Young : Scapulars 

 and interscapulars blackish, margined terminally 

 with white and laterally with rusty, those of 

 middle of back (longitudinally) also tipped with 

 rusty; feathers of top of head and rump, also 

 tertials, margined with rusty; wing-coverts bor- 

 dered with pale grayish buff; otherwise like winter 

 plumage, but chest, etc., suffused with buffy. 

 Length 6.75-8.00, wing 4.90-5.00, culmen .90-1.00, 

 tarsus .95-1.00. Eggs 1.37 X -94, light olive or 

 olive-brownish, spotted (usually rather finely) 

 with deep brown and dull purplish gray. Hob. 

 Eastern North America, breeding far northward ; 

 in winter, south through West Indies and over 



