152 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Genus MICROPALAMA Barrp. (Page 149, pl. XLIIL, fig. 4.) 
Species. 
Summer adult: Upper parts varied with black, pale gray, and light buff, the 
first prevailing on back and scapulars; wing-coverts grayish, margined with paler; 
upper tail-coverts white, marked with dusky streaks and bars; top of head dusky, 
streaked with whitish ; ear-coverts and patch on each side of occiput, light rusty ; 
streak of dusky from eye to corner of mouth; rest of head, with neck, dull white, 
streaked with dusky, the lower parts whitish barred with dusky. Winter plumage : 
Upper parts uniform ash-gray, except tail-coverts, wings, and tail, which are as in 
summer; superciliary stripe and lower parts white, the chest, sides of neck, and 
lower tail-coverts streaked with grayish. Young: Back and scapulars dusky, all 
the feathers bordered with pale buff or buffy whitish; wing-coverts bordered with 
pale buff and white; upper tail-coverts nearly immaculate white; lower parts 
soiled white, the chest and sides more or less strongly washed with buff, and indis- 
tinctly streaked with grayish. Length 7.50-9.25, wing 5.00-5.30, culmen 1.55-1.75, 
tarsus 1.55-1.70. Eggs 1.42 x 1.00, pale grayish buff, or grayish buffy white, boldly 
spotted with rich vandyke-brown and purphsh gray. Hab. Eastern North America 
breeding far northward; south, in winter, to Brazil, Peru, and West Indies; Ber- 
mudas during migrations.......... 233. M. himantopus (Bonap.). Stilt Sandpiper. 
Genus TRINGA Linnavs. (Page 148, pl. XLVIL, figs. 1-3; pl. XLVIIL, figs. 1, 2.) 
Species. 
a, Wing 6.00 or more; middle pair of tail-feathers not longer than the rest. (Sub- 
genus Tringa.) 
6. Wing less than 7.00; summer adult with lower parts uniform light cinna- 
mon. Summer adult: Above light grayish, irregularly varied with black 
and tinged with pale rusty; rump and upper tail-coverts white, irregu- 
larly barred and spotted with dusky; distinct superciliary stripe and 
lower parts generally, uniform pale vinaceous-cinnamon, paler on belly; 
under wing-coverts, axillars, flanks, and lower tail-coverts white, usually 
more or less marked with dusky. Winter plumage: Above plain ash- 
gray, the feathers with indistinct darker shaft-streaks ; rump and upper 
tail-coverts white, barred with dusky; lower parts white, the throat, 
fore-neck, chest, and sides streaked and otherwise marked with dusky. 
Young: Above ash-gray, each feather bordered with whitish and with 
a subedging of dusky ; lower parts whitish, sometimes tinged with dull 
buffy on breast, etc., the neck and chest streaked and flecked with dusky, 
the sides indistinctly barred and spotted with the same; otherwise, like 
adult. Downy young: “ Forehead warm buff, with a central black line; 
over the eye a double black line; crown, from centre backwards, black, 
slightly varied with rufous, and dotted with buff; nape creamy buff, 
slightly varied with blackish; upper parts ... black slightly varied 
