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SCOLOPACIDiE, SNIPE, ETC. — 207-11. 255 



BainVs Sandpiper. Medium; 7-7^-; wing 4J-4| ; tail 2^- ; bill, tarsus, 

 and middle toe with claw about J ; bill and feet black ; colors almost exactly 

 as in the last species ; edgings of upper plumage rattier tawny than chestnut ; 

 jugular suffusion pale, rather fulvous, the streaks small and sparse, some- 

 times almost obsolete. North and South America ; rare on the Atlantic 

 coast (Long Island, Henshaiv; Am. Nat. vi, 306). Trinrja scldnzii 

 WooDH., Sitgreaves Rep. 1853, 100. T. honapartei Cass, in Bd., 722 (in 

 part). T. maculata, Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Soolopaces, 39 (in jiart). 

 A. lairdii, Coues, Proc. Phila. Acad. 1861, 194 ; 1866, 97 ; Sclater, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1862, 369 (Mexico) ; 1867, 332 (Chili, etc.) ; Dall and Bann., 

 Trans. Chicago Acad, i, 292 (Alaska) ; Allen, Bull. M. C. Z., 1872, 182 

 (Kansas); Harting, Ibis, 1870, 151 (S. Africa!) bairdii. 



Pectoral Sandpiper. Jaclc Snipe. Grass Snipe. Large ; 8J-9 ; Aving 

 5-5^ ; bill, tarsus, and middle toe with claw about 1^ ; bill and feet greenish ; 

 crown noticeably different from cervix ; edging of scapulars bright chestnut, 

 straight-edged ; chin whitish, definitely contrasted with the heavily ashy- 

 shaded and sharjily dusky-streaked jugulum. North America, abundant. 

 NuTT., ii. 111 ; AuD., v, 259, pi. 359 ; Cass, in Bu., 720. . maculata. 



It Upper tail coverts ■white, with or without dusky marks; jugulum sharply 

 streaked, but with little or no ashy suffusion. 



/j-t:^- I White-rwnped Sandpiper. Medium; size of bairdii; feet black; bill 

 black, light-colored at base below ; plumage as in the foregoing species, 

 excepting the above particulars. An ashy wash on the jugulum is hardly 

 appreciable except in young birds, and then it is slight ; the streaks are 

 very numerous, broad and distinct, extending as specks nearly or quite to 

 the bill, and as shaft lines along the sides ; while the white upper tail coverts 

 are a diagnostic feature. Eastern N. Am. to the Rocky Mountains. 

 Western? An abundant species along the Atlantic Coast. T. scldnzii 

 Sw., Fn. Bor.-Am. ii, 384 ; Nun., ii, 109; Aud., v, 275; T. honapartii 

 Cass, in Bd., 275 bonapartei. 



.,-_/ 2- ^'■Goopier's Sandpiper. Largest ; 9J ; wing 5| ; tail 2f ; bill IJ ; tarsus IJ ; 



Like the last in color. Long Island; only one specimen known. It is 



uncertain whether this is a good species or an unusual state of T. canuius 



or A. macidata. Bd., 716 ; Coues, Proc. Phila. Acad. 1861, 202. cooperii. 



** Bill, tarsus, and middle toe, obviously not of equal length. 



\ Tarsus shorter than middle toe ; tibiffi feathered. {Arrjuatella.) 



.^y 2- ' Purple Sandpiper. Bill little longer than head, much longer than tarsus, 

 straight or nearly so ; tibial feathers long, reaching to the joint, though 

 the legs are really bare a little way above ; tarsus shorter than middle toe ; 

 8-9; wing 5; tail 2|, rounded; bill T^ ; tarsus | ; middle toe 1 or a little 

 more. Adult : above ashy-black with purplish and violet reflections, most of 

 the feathers with pale or white edging ; secondaries mostly white ; line over 

 eye, eyelids, and under parts white, the breast and jugulum a pale cast of 

 the color of the back, aud sides marked with the same. In winter, and 

 most immature birds, the colors are similar but much duller ; very youno- 



