BIRDS OF 

 GENUS PAVONCELLA LEACH. 



105. PAVONCELLA PUGNAX LINN. 260. 



Ruff. 



Above varied with black, rufous, and gray, the scapulars and tertials 

 exhibiting these colors in oblique bands. Beneath, white, varied on the 

 jugulum and throat ; primaries, dark-brown, with greenish reflection above ; 

 the inner webs finely mottled towards the base. Outer three tail-feathers 

 plain, the remainder transversely barred. Bill, brown ; sides of rump, white, 

 legs yellow. Male in spring dress with the feathers of the neck greatly 

 developed into a ruff ; the face covered with reddish papillae. Length about 

 10 inches ; wing, 6-40 ; tail, 2-60 ; bill, 1-25. 



HAB. Northern parts of the Old World, straying occasionally to 

 Eastern North America. 



A wanderer from the Old World, which has been frequently 

 obtained on Long Island, on the coast of New England and in 

 the Middle States. 



The fact of a specimen having been killed on the island near 

 Toronto in the spring of 1882, gives me the privilege of record- 

 ing it as a rare visitor to Ontario. This is farther inland than 

 any of the others occurred, and the probabilities are that it will 

 not often be found so far from the sea. The specimen referred 

 to is apparently a young male in nearly perfect plumage, and is 

 now mounted, and in the possession of Mr. Young, of Toronto. 



GENUS BARTRAMIA LESSON. 

 106. BARTRAMIA LONGICAUDA (BECHST.). 261. 



Bartramian Sandpiper. 



Above blackish, with a slight greenish reflection, variegated with tawny 

 and whitish ; below, pale tawny of varying shade, bleaching on throat and 

 belly ; jugulum with streaks, breast and sides with arrowheads and bars of 

 blackish ; axillars and lining of wings pure white, black-barred ; quills blackish, 

 with white-bars on the inner webs ; tail varied with tawny, black and white, 

 chiefly in bars, bill and legs pale, former black-tipped. Length n-i3 inches; 

 wing, 6-7 ; tail, 3-4 ; bill, i-i| ; middle toe and claw about the same; tarsus, 

 about 2. 



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