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out claw; median upper tail-coverts dusky; lower parts white 
and blackish in summer adult. (Subgenus Pelidna Cuvizr.) 
e'. Summer adult: Above light dull rusty or tawny, streaked and 
spotted with blackish; anterior lower parts white, or 
grayish white, streaked with dusky; belly covered by a 
more or less continuous patch of blackish. Winter plumage: 
Above plain ash-gray or brownish gray, sometimes with 
indistinct dusky shaft-streaks; an indistinct superciliary 
stripe and lower parts white, the neck and chest indis- 
tinctly streaked with grayish, the sides and flanks some- 
times also sparsely streaked. Young: Back and scapulars 
dusky, the feathers broadly bordered with rusty, ochra- 
ceous, or buffy, this becoming paler (often whitish) on tips 
of some feathers; wing-coverts bordered with buffy ; top 
of head light rusty, streaked with blackish; sides of head 
and neck dull buffy, indistinctly streaked with dusky; 
lower parts white, the breast and belly spotted with 
black. 
J’. Smaller and duller in color. Summer adult with back 
varied with dull ochreous or buffy, and blackish of belly 
not in strong contrast with speckled or otherwise va- 
ried dull grayish of breast. Downy young: “Covered 
with rather close down; crown velvety black, this 
color narrowing to a point on the forehead, and mar- 
gined all around with buffy white; hind crown slightly 
spotted with white; upper parts deep black slightly 
varied with rufous, and dotted here and there with 
white; sides of the head white with a warm buffy 
tinge; a dark streak passes from the base of the bill 
over the eye, and another below it, and behind the eye 
there is a dark patch; rest of under-parts grayish 
white.” (Drussrer.) Length about 7.50, wing 4.30-4.75, 
culmen 1.15-1.40, tarsus .85-1.00, middle toe .70-.75. 
Eggs pale olive-buff, spotted, somewhat spirally (some- 
times speckled), with different shades of vandyke- 
brown and purplish gray. Hab. Europe, ete.; acci- 
dental or casual in eastern North America (west side 
of Hudson’s Bay).... 243. T. alpina (Linn.). Dunlin. 
f?. Larger and brighter colored. Summer adult with back, 
etc., varied with bright rusty ochraceous, and black of 
belly conspicuously contrasted with nearly immaculate 
grayish white of breast; length 7.60-8.75, wing 4.60- 
4.95, culmen 1.40-1.75, tarsus 1.00-1.15, middle toe .70- 
80. Eggs 1.43 x 1.01, dull brownish or grayish buff or 
olive-buff, blotched, spotted, and stained with chestnut- 
