T RING A 767 



wing and on the ground. It breeds in Arctic America on the 

 ground, usually in a tuft of grass, and in June deposits 4 eggs, 

 which are drab, sometimes with a greenish tinge, spotted 

 and blotched with umber-brown, and measure about T49 by 

 1-07. 



1062. SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER. 



TRINGA ACUMINATA. 



Tringa acuminata (Horst), Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 192 (1821) ; David 

 and Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 470 ; Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp. p. 339 ; 

 Dresser, ix. p. 363, pi. 712 ; (Sharpe), Cat. B. Br. Mns. xxiv. p. 566 ; 

 Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 908 ; Saunders, p. 580 ; Ridgway, p. 155 ; 

 Nelson, Nat. Hist. Alaska, p. 106, pi. vii. ; T. australis (nee. Gmel.), 

 Gould, B. of Austral, vi. pi. 30. 



ad. (China). Crown rusty red striped with black ; upper parts 

 more rufous than T. maculata ; shafts of quills all white for a portion of 

 their length ; tail-feathers blackish margined with white, the middle ones 

 elongated and rufous margined, all the feathers pointed ; a streak over the 

 eye white spotted with black ; under parts white, the throat and breast 

 spotted with black ; the breast and flanks washed with rufous ; the 

 rest of the under parts with squamate black markings ; bill olivaceous 

 at the base, otherwise blackish brown ; legs yellowish olive ; iris hazel - 

 brown. Culmen 1*25, wing 5*3, tail 2-15, tarsus T2 inch. Sexes alike. In 

 winter the crown is rusty, the rest of upper parts greyish brown streaked 

 with dusky ; superciliary stripe and under parts white ; breast greyish 

 buff with indistinct dusky streaks. The young bird resembles the adult in 

 winter but is darker above. 



Hob. Kamchatka and Alaska; Eastern Siberia; Japan in 

 winter and south to the Pelew, Sunda, and Molucca Islands, 

 New Guinea, New Ireland, the Friendly Islands, Australia and 

 New Zealand ; has occurred twice in England. 



In habits it resembles T. maculata, with which species it 

 often associates. Its note, when taking wing, is said to be a 

 soft metallic pleep, pleep. It doubtless breeds in North-eastern 

 Siberia, but its nest and eggs are unknown. 



1063. BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. 

 TRINGA BAIRDI. 



Tringa bairdi (Coues), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1861, p. 194 ; 

 (Sharpe), Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxiv. p. 570 ; Kidgway, p. 157 ; Tacz. 

 F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 922. 



< ad. (N. America). Upper parts generally blackish margined with 

 sandy and rufous buff ; the crown greyish buff streaked with brownish 



