158 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
of all the quills more or less white.’ Summer adult: 
Scapulars and interscapulars bordered and irregularly in- 
dented with rusty ochraceous, these lighter markings some- 
times extended nearly or quite to the shaft, thus dividing 
the black into more or less completely separated spots; 
tertials broadly edged with rusty ochraceous; rump and 
upper tail-coverts plain brownish black, the outermost 
feathers of the latter partly or entirely white; top of head 
rusty ochraceous, broadly streaked with black; fore-neck 
and chest dull brownish white, streaked with dusky; rest 
of lower parts plain white. Winter plumage: Above plain 
brownish gray, with dusky shaft-streaks; chest pale gray- 
ish, very indistinctly streaked with darker; rest of lower 
parts plain white. Young: Similar to summer adults, but 
scapulars and outermost interscapulars with white tips to 
outer webs, and lacking the concealed ochraceous bars; 
lower parts more as in winter plumage. Length 5.00-6.75, 
wing 3.50-3.75, culmen .75-.92, tarsus .75. Eggs 1.15 x .83, 
pale grayish buffy, varying to pale brownish, thickly spotted, 
speckled, or sprinkled with deep chestnut and dull purplish 
gray. Hab. America in general, but breeding only in arctic 
and subarctic districts. 
242. T. minutilla Vizmty. Least Sandpiper. 
@, Middle toe, without claw, longer than exposed culmen; shafts 
of all the quills, except first, wholly dark brown. Summer 
adult : Very similar to corresponding stage of 7. minutilla, 
but feathers of back more broadly edged with tawny 
ochraceous, and scapulars more broadly edged with a 
brighter, more rusty shade of the same, these feathers with- 
out any trace of bars or indentations of the lighter color. 
Winter plumage, not seen. Young, hardly distinguishable 
from summer adult. Length about 5.50-6.20, wing 3.45- 
3.65, culmen .70-.80, tarsus .85-.90. Hab. Asia, breeding 
toward arctic coast; accidental (?) in Alaska (Otter Island, 
Bering’s Sea, June 8, 1885). 
242.1, T. damacensis (Horsr.). Long-toed Stint.’ 
ce. Exposed culmen exceeding tarsus by at least half the length of the 
middle toe, without claw, and more than two-thirds as long as 
tail. 
@, Tarsus less than one and a half times as long as middle toe, with- 
1 To this section belong also the type of the subgenus, 7. minuta Luisu.; also, 7. temminckii Leisu., and 
Tf. ruficollie Paut., of the northern portions of the eastern hemisphere. 
2 Totanus damacensis Horsr., Tr. Linn. Soe. xiii. 1821, 129. Tringa damacensis Swinn., P. Z. S. 1863, 
316. Rinew. Auk, iii. 1886, 275 (Otter Island, Alaska; Chas. H. Townsend). Actodromas damacensis STEIN., 
Orn. Expl. Kamtschat. 1885, 116 (Bering Island, Kamtschatka), 
