486 TRINGA MACULATA, PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 



in June, and were the first, if not the only, specimens which have 

 reached naturalists. The labels give no items of the nidification, but 

 this is undoubtedly not peculiar in any respect. The shape and colora- 

 tion conform to the usnal styles of the restricted group Actodromas. 

 The ground of the egg of hairdii is clay-colored, tending in some cases 

 to gray, in others to buffy. The spotting is ot'rich umber and chocolate 

 browns of varying shade or depth, with the usual paler shell-markings. 

 In most instances the markings are fine and innumerable, of indefinite 

 small size and shape, and though thicliest and laigest at the greater 

 end, only occasionally mass there into great blotches. Some specimens 

 show a little black tracery over all at the large end. Several specimens 

 n>easure as follows : 1.30 by 0.90 inches ; 1.35 by 0.94 ; 1.28 by 0.92. 

 Some were taken early in July, at which date they contained advanced 

 embryos. 



TRINGA MACULATA, Yieill. 

 Pectoral Sandpiper; Grass Snipe; Jack Snipe. 



Tringa maculata, ViEiix., N. D. xxxiv, 1819, 465.- Wheat., Ohio Agric. Rep. 1860, No. 

 208.— SCHLKG., M. P.-B. Scolopaces, 39.— Blas., List B. Ear. 1862, 18.— Tuknb., 

 B. E. Pa. 1869, 31.— Tkippe, Pr. Bost. Soc. 1872, 241.— Dress., Ibis, 1866, 36.— 

 Snow, B. Kans. 1873, 10.— Suxd., Ofv. Vet. Ak. 1889, 587 (St. Bartholomew).— 

 Haet., Br. Birds. 1872, 140.— Codes, Key, 1872, 255.— ScL. & Sai.v., P. Z. S. 

 1873, 455. 



Tiinga {Actodromas) maeulata, Cass., B. N. A. 720. — RiDGW., Ann. Lye. N. Y. x, 1874, 384. 



Tiiiiga (Linmocinclm) maeulata. Gray, Hand-list, iii, 187], 49, No. 10303. 



Pclidna maeulata. Pakz., Cat. Oia. Eur. 1H.36, 15. 



Actodromas maeulata, COUES, Pr. Phila. Acad. ]861, 197 and 230.— CouES & Prent., 

 Smiths. Rep. 1861, 415.- CouES, Pr. Ess. Inst, v, 1868, 294.— McIlwr., ibid. 1866, 

 93.— Allex, Pr. Ess. Inst, iv, 1864, 77.— Verr., ibkl. iii, 1862, 1.53.— Boakdm., 

 Pr. Bost. Soc. ix, 1862, 128.— Lawh., Ann Lye. N. Y. viii, 1866, 294.— Coop., Pr. 

 Cal. Acad. 1868.— Allen, Mem. Bost. Soc. i. 1868, .501.— CouKS, Pr. Bost. Soc. 

 xii, 1868, 122.— Dall & Baxx., Tr. Chic. Acad, i, 1869, 292.— Mayn., Guide, 

 1870, 140.— Allen, Bull. M. C. Z. iii, 1872, 182. 



Pelidna peetoraVs, Bp., Comp. List, 1838, 50 ; Cat. Meth. 1842, 60.— (?) Cass., V. S. Ast. 

 Exp. ii, 1855, 195 (may be bairdii). 



Tringa pecioralis. Say, Long's Exp. R. Uts. i, 1823, 171.— Bp., Am. Orn. iv, 1833, 43, pi. 

 23; Syn. 1828, 318.— NuTT.. Man. ii, 1834, 111.— .Jex.. Man. 1835, 210.— Yaur., 

 Br. Birds, ii, 6.54 ; iii, 82.— Eyt., Cat. Br. Birds, 41.— Keys. & Blas., Wirb. Eur. 

 77.— AUD., Orn. Biog. iii, 1835, 601 ; v, 1839, 68i ; pi. 294 ; Syn. 1839, 232 ; B. 

 Am. V, 1842, 259, pi. 329.— Macgil., Man. Br. Birds, ii, 1842, 69.— Temm., Man. 

 iv, 1840, 397 — GiR., B. L. L 1844, 233.— DeKay, N. Y. Zool, 1844. 242, pi. 85, f. 

 193.— SCUL , Rev. Crit. Ois. Eur. 1844, 89.— Gray. (ie.u. of B. iii, 1849, 579.— 

 Lemiseye, Av. Cuba, 1850, 98.— Woodh., Sitgv. Rep. 1853, 100.— Meyer, Br. 

 Birds, v. 1857, 89.— PuTx., Pr. Ess. Inst, i, 18.30, 216.— Hoy, Smiths. Rep. 1864, 

 438.— Reixh., Ibis, iii, 1859, 10 (Greenland).- Suxd., OIV. Vet. Ak. 1869, 602 

 (Porto Rico). 



Tringa dominicensis, Degl., Orn. Eur. ii, 1849, 232. 



(?) " Tringa eampestris, LlCHT., Verz. I&23, 74." {Gray.) 



Among the extralimital quotations are: ScL., P. Z. S. 18.56, 310 (Cordova); ibid. 1858, 

 566 (Ecuador) ; ibid. 1866, 189 (Peru) ; ibid. 1867, 754 (Huallajo) ; ibid. 1869, 598 (Peru).— 

 ScL., Ibis, i, 229 (Guatemala). — Newt., Ibis, i, 2.58 (Santa Cruz). — Bry., Pr. Bost. Soc. 

 1>67, 69 (Bahamas).— La WR., Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii, 63 (Panama). — Cab., J. f. O. iv, 421 

 (Cuba).— Pelz., Orn. Bras. 311 (Brazil). — Godld, B. Eur. pi. 327. — Hartlng gives six- 

 teen British instances, with references. 



Bab. — North, Central, and South America. West Indies. Greenland. Europe. 

 Not obtained by any of the Expeditions. 



Under the various names above given, and also under that of " Meadow 

 Suipe," the Pectoral Sandpiper is well known to sportsmen and others, 

 and is frequently sought after, as its somewhat game-like habits of lying 

 to a dog and flushing correctly from the grass, like a true Snipe, render 

 it an attractive object of pursuit ; beside which, in the fall it becomes 

 very fat, and it is then excellent eating. Unlike most Sandpipers, it 



