NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
adult, but lighter tints above more rusty, the scapulars 
and outermost interscapulars tipped exteriorly with 
white, the chest, etc., more buffy and more narrowly 
streaked. Length 8.00-9.50, wing about 5.00-5.50, cul- 
men 1.10-1.20, tarsus 1.00-1.10. Hyggs 1.44 x 1.02, pale 
grayish buff varying to pale olive-greenish, boldly and 
heavily blotched with rich vandyke-brown and clouded 
with purplish gray. Hab. Nearly the whole of Amer- 
ica, but in summer confined to Arctic and subarctic 
districts; occasional in Europe. 
239. T. maculata Viei.. Pectoral Sandpiper. 
e. Rump dusky, the feathers bordered with pale grayish, buffy, 
or whitish. 
J’. Upper tail-coverts all white, but sometimes marked with 
dusky. 
g. Wing less than 5.50. Summer adult: Top of head 
buffy, broadly streaked with black; back and scap- 
ulars mixed light brownish gray and grayish buff, 
tinged more or less with rusty ochraceous, and 
broadly striped with blackish, these markings 
more wedge-shaped on scapulars; upper tail-cov- 
erts white, often nearly or quite immaculate, 
sometimes with a few, mostly concealed, sagittate 
or V-shaped, marks of dusky; superciliary stripe 
and lower parts white; sides of head and neck, 
fore-neck, chest, and sides, streaked with dusky, 
these streaks broadest and most distinct on chest, 
sparser, larger, and more cuneate or V-shaped on 
flanks. Winter plumage: Upper parts plain brown- 
ish gray, with indistinct narrow mesial streaks 
of dusky; otherwise as in summer, but streaks 
on chest, etc., less distinct. Young: Scapulars 
and interscapulars blackish, margined terminally 
with white and laterally with rusty, those of 
middle of back (longitudinally) also tipped with 
rusty; feathers of top of head and rump, also 
tertials, margined with rusty; wing-coverts bor- 
dered with pale grayish buff; otherwise like winter 
plumage, but chest, etc. suffused with buffy. 
Length 6.75-8.00, wing 4.90-5.00, culmen -90-1.00, 
tarsus .95-1.00. Eggs 1.37 x .94, light olive or 
olive-brownish, spotted (usually rather finely) 
with deep brown and dull purplish gray. Hab. 
Eastern North America, breeding far northward; 
in winter, south through West Indies and over 
