124 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



77. Actitis macularia. 

 Spotted Sandpiper. 



Actitis macularia (Linn.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 249, 1766 ("Habitat in 



Europa et America septentrionali ") ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. 



Amer. i. p. 41, no. 400, 1912. 

 Tringoides macnlarius Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 180 (Camacusa, Bartica 



Grove) ; Quelch, Timehri (2) ii. p. 363, 1888 (Abary Biver), (2) v. 



p. 107, 1891 (Georgetown) ; Sharps, Cat. B. Brit. Mu.s. xxiv. 



p. 468, 1896 (Cariniang River) ; Quelch, Timehri (2) x. p. 278, 1896; 



Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, p. 156, 1910 (Waini River). 



" Common Spotted Sand-Lark or AVagtail," " Sandpiper or 

 'Nit^'^ (Quelch). 



Adult male. Upper surface olive-brown, with dark shaft-streaks 

 and dark edgings to the wing-coverts ; outer marginal upper wing- 

 coverts and bastard-wing blackish edged with white ; primarj- 

 coverts and quills dark brown, the latter white towards the base 

 on the itmer web, except the outer one, basal portion and tips of 

 secondaries white ; outer tail-feathers more or less marked with 

 white; a line over the eye white; throat and entire under surface 

 white including the axilliaries ; sides of neck olive-brown ; under 

 wing-coverts brown tipped with white. 



Total length 160 mm., culmen 26, wing 101, tail 41, tarsus 25. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Wing 103 mm. 



The male described is in winter plumage, and was obtained on 

 the Mazaruni River. 



Adult male in summer plumage differs in having the under 

 surface spotted with brown and the dark shaft-lines on the upper 

 parts wider and much more pronounced ; some of the feathers are 

 narrowly barred with dark brown. " Bill greenish olive above, 

 yellow beneath, the point of both mandibles black ; feet pale 

 yellowish flesh-colour, claws black ; iris hazel. '^ 



This bird breeds in North America and migrates south in 

 winter. 



Ravge hi British Gidana. Ituribisi River, Abary River, Maza- 

 runi River [McConvell collectioii) ; Bartica, Kamakusa, Kamarang 

 River (Whitely) ; Waini River (Beebe). 



Extralimital Range. Distributed generally in South America 

 to South-east Bnizil, Central America, West India Islands, and 

 North America. 



HaUts. Mr. J. J. Quelch (Timehri (2) ii. p. 363) observed this 

 species on the Abary River, and writes : — "Along the waterside^ 



