378 CHAEADEIID^. 



move its head and neck in the same peculiar manner. The flight is graceful and rapid, 

 and the voice loud and harsh, almost screaming^. 

 The nest and eggs have not yet been discovered. 



TEINGOIDES. 



Tringoides, Bp. Sagg. distr. met. An. Vertebr. p. 58 (1831) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. 

 p. 456 (1896). 

 Tringoides belongs to the short-legged section of the Tattlers, in which the tarsus is 

 about equal to the length of the middle toe and claw, and does not exceed the latter 

 in dimensions. The bill is straight, as in Totanus and Eeteractitis, from which the 

 present genus differs in having the secondaries equal in length to the primaries, the 

 distance between the tips of the two series of quills being much less than the length of 



the tarsus. 



Only two species of Tringoides are known — the Common Sandpiper of Europe, 

 T. hypoleuca, and the Spotted Sandpiper of America, T. macularia. Both breed in 

 temperate regions, and migrate far to the south in winter. 



1. Tringoides macularia. 



The Spotted Tringa, Edwards, Glean. Nat. Hist. ii. p. 139'. 



La Grive d'eau, Briss. Om. v. p. 255 ^. 



Tringa macularia, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 249 \ 



Totanus macularius, Licht. Prets-Verz. Mex., Vog. p. 3 * ; Cab. J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 59 '. 



Tringoides macularius, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 215 ' ; 1860, p. 254, ' ; 1864, p. 178 ' ; Scl. & Salv.. Ibis, . 



1859, p. 230 ' ; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 372 " ; Dresser, Ibis, 1866, p. 38 " ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 



ix. p. 142"; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 309"; BuU. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 48"^ 



V. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 377"; Boucaxd, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 44"; Salv. Cat. Strickl. 



Coll. p. 61 2 " ; Ibis, 1885, p. 194 " ; 1889, p. 379 " ; Sumichr. La Nat. v. p. 233 '" ; Nutting, 



Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 379 " ; Baird, Brewer, and Ridgw. Water-Birds N. Amer. i. 



p. 301 " ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit, Mus. xxiv. p. 468 " > Gates, Cat. Eggs Brit. Mus. ii, 



p. 46". 

 Actitis macularia, Ridgw. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. viii. p. 581"; x. p. 584"; Cherrie, Auk, 1892, 



p. 329"; Richm. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 526 ='; A. 0. U. Check-1. N. Amer. Birds, 

 2nd ed. p. 97"; EDiot, N. Amer. Shore-Birds, p. 149"; Underw. Ibis, 1896, p. 449''.. 

 Tringoides hypoleucus (nee L.), v. Frantz. J. f. Om. 1869, p. 377 ". 

 Tringoides sp., Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 310". 



Ptil. hiem. Olivaceo-bnumea, rhachidibus nigricaiitibus indistinctis ; tectricibns alarmn et secmidariis iatinus 

 dorso concoloribus ; remigibus sepiariis, primariis intus albo notatis vis albido ad apicem fimbriatis, 

 secundariis autem ad basia albis et albo latius terminatis ; rectricibns dorso concoloribus, extimis albo 

 terminatis, et albo nigroque late sed irregulariter fasciatis ; loris f uscescentibus, fascia parva supralorali 

 et palpebris albidis ; facie laterali et pectoris lateribus brunneis ; gutture et corpore reliquo subtus 

 pure albis ; subalaribus albis, harum minimis et teotricibus primariorum nigricantibus ; axillaribas pure 

 albis. Long, tota circa 6-6, alae 4'1, caudse 1"8, cubn. 1'15, tarsi 0-9. (Descr. avis adultse ex Panajachel.- 

 Mus. nostr.) 



