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Hab. Tho whole of North and the groat or part of South Amorica. ranpring south in 

 winter to southoru Brazil and Chill; Wost Indies in Roneral; Bermudas; frequont in 

 Europe ; North China? (Swinh. Ibis. 1863, 97.) 



8p. Char. Adult in summer: Above, licht clay-color, tho crown, back, scapulars, and 

 tertials washed with liclit rufous or rusty orchracoous; tho feathers black centrally, pro- 

 ducing conspicuous streaks, which widen into spots on the scapulars and back ; rump and 

 middle upper tail-covorts brownish black; lateral upper tail-coverts white, with dusky 

 shaft-streaks. Middle tail-feathers dusky, edged with lighter; other rectrices pale brown- 

 ish gray, bordoiod with white. "Wing-coverts light grayish brown, with paler borders and 

 darker centres; a light superciliary stripe, and a darker loral one. Cheeks, sides of the 

 neck, whole jugulum, and breast, pale clay-color or light grayish buff, streaked with dusky ; 

 sides sparsely streaked. Remaining lower parts immaculate white. "Basal half of bill 

 dull greenish yellow." (Nelson, M8.) Adult in winter: Similar to summer plumage, but 

 therusty tint above almost or wholly absent, and the black markings less sharply defined. 

 Young, first plumage: Quite similar to the summer adult, but the scapulars and outer 

 interscapulars conspicuously tipped externally with white, the breast, etc., more distinctly 

 buff, and rather more narrowly streaked. 



Total length, about 9.00 inches; wing, about 5.00; culmon, 1.10; tarsus, 1.00-1.10; middle 

 toe, .90. 



This well-known Sandpiper is one of the most abundant spe- 

 cies of its family during its migrations. In the northeastern 

 portion of the State, it is, says Mr. Nelson, a very abundant 

 migrant, "sometimes uniting into large flocks containing sev- 

 eral hundred, and frequenting wet prairies or marshes. At other 

 times it can only be found singly, scattered over the same ter- 

 ritory. March 25th to May 10th, and the middle of Septem- 

 ber to the first of November. A few remain through the sum- 

 mer, but whether they breed or not I have been unable to decide." 



Tringa fuscicoUis Yieill. 



BONAPARTE'S SANDPIPER. 

 Popular synonym. White-tail Stile (Plymouth Bay, Mass.). 



I'ringafusciolUs Vieill. Nouv. Diet, xzxiv, 1819, 461.— Coues, B. N. W. 1874, 487.— A. O. 



U. Check List. 1886, No, 240.— Redgw. Man. N. Am. B. 1887, 157. 

 Actodromas fuscicoUis RiDGw. Nom. N. Am. B. 1882. No. 536.— B.B. & R. Water B. N. 



Am. i,1884, 227. 

 Tringa schinzii Bonap. Synop. 1828, 2t9; Am. Orn. iv, 1833, 69. pi. 21, Hg. 2.— Nutt. Man. 



il, 183t, 109.— Sw.& Rich. F. B.-A.ii, 1831, 3S1.—AUD. Orn. Biog.iii. 1833, 529. pi. 278; 



Synop. 1839. 236; B. Am. v, 1842, 275. pi. 335. 

 Tringa bonaparlei Schleg. Rev. Crit. Ois. Eur. 1844, 89.— Cass, in Baird's B. N. Am. 



1858, 722 (part).— Baikd, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, No. 533.-CouKS, Key, 1872, 255; Check 



List, 1874, No. 421. 

 Actodromas bonapartei CouES, Check List, 2d ed. 1882, No. 617. 



Hab. Ea.stern Province of North America, breeding far northward; in winter, the 

 whole of Middle Ameiica. South America, and the West Indies; Falkland Islands; occa- 

 sional in Europe. 



Sp. Chae. Adtdt in summer: Above, light brownish gray, much tinged, particularly 

 on the crown, back, and inner scapulars, with light rusty buff or ochraceou8,all the feathers 

 black centrally, these markings largest and somewhat V-shaped, or sagittate, on the 



