334 LONG-LEGGED SANDPIPER. 
spring and autumn, Some few spend the winter ;in Lower Louisiana, 
but nearly all proceed southward beyond the Texas. 
Trinca Himantorus, Ch. Bonaparte, Synopsis of Birds of United States, p. 316. 
Trinea Dovctassit, Swainson, Doveras’s SanpDpPiPER, Richards. and Swains. Fauna 
Bor.-Amer. vol. ii. 379. 
Trinca HimanTopus, SLENDER-SHANKS SanpDpiIPER, Richards. and Swains. Fauna 
Bor.-Amer. vol. ti. 380 
Lone-LEGGED SanpPIPER, AUDUBON’s STILT SANDPIPER, and Douetass’ STILT 
SanprireEr, Vutiall, Manual, vol. ii. p. 138, 140, 141. 
Male in Spring, Plate CCCXLIV. Fig. 1. 
Bill much longer than the head, very slender, subcylindrical, very 
slightly decurved, compressed at the base, the end rather depressed, 
considerably enlarged. Upper mandible with the dorsal line almost 
straight, being very slightly decurved towards the end, the ridge nar- 
row, convex, flattened towards the tip, the sides sloping, with a nar- 
row groove extending nearly to the end, the edges rather blunt and 
soft, the tip decurved. Nostrils basal, linear, pervious. Lower man- 
dible with the angle long and very narrow, the dorsal line straight, to- 
wards the end slightly deflected, the sides sloping outwards, with along 
narrow groove, the tip a little broader. 
Head small, oblong, compressed. Eyes small. Neck rather long. 
Body slender. Feet long, very slender; tibia bare for an inch; tar- 
sus long, slender, compressed, covered before and behind with nume- 
rous small scutella ; hind toe very small, the rest of moderate length, 
slender, the second very slightly longer than the fourth, the third very 
little longer ; short basal webs, running out along the margins, that 
between the third and fourth toes larger. Claws rather long, very 
slender, slightly arched, tapering, compressed. 
Plumage very soft, blended; the feathers somewhat distinct on 
the back. “Wings very long, pointed; primaries tapering, the first 
longest, the second slightly shorter, the rest rapidly graduated ; outer 
secondaries slightly incurved, obliquely sinuate on the outer web to- 
wards the end, the inner web rounded ; inner secondaries very narrow, 
tapering, reaching to three-fourths of an inch of the longest primary 
when the wing is closed. ‘ail of moderate length, nearly even, but 
with the two middle feathers exceeding the rest by two and a half 
twelfths of an inch, of twelve narrow, rounded feathers. 
