160 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
brown. Hab. North America in general, breeding far 
northward; eastern Asia.... 243a. T. alpina pacifica 
(Covxs). Red-backed Sandpiper. 
d?. Tarsus one and a half times as long as the middle toe, with claw ; 
upper tail-coverts entirely white; head, neck, and lower parts 
rufous or chestnut in summer adult. (Subgenus Ancylocheilus 
Kavr.) 
Summer adult: Head, neck, and lower parts (except anal 
region and lower tail-coverts), deep cinnamon-rufous or 
chestnut; upper parts varied with blackish and rusty. 
Winter plumage: Above plain brownish gray, with indis- 
tinct dusky shaft-streaks ; superciliary stripe, upper tail- 
coverts, and lower parts; white, the chest indistinctly 
streaked with grayish. Young: Back and scapulars 
dusky, the feathers edged with dull buffy or light ochra- 
ceous, and bordered terminally with whitish; lesser and 
middle wing-coverts bordered terminally with dull buff; 
otherwise much like winter plumage, but chest and sides 
of breast washed with dull buff. Length about 7.00-9.00, 
wing 4.80-5.20, culmen 1.38-1.60, tarsus 1.10-1.20. Eggs 
1.50 x 1.04, pale grayish or greenish buffy, spotted with 
deep brown, etc. (hardly distinguishable from eggs of T. 
maculata or T. alpina pacifica). Hab. Kastern hemisphere 
in general; occasional in eastern North America and in 
Alaska..... 244. T. ferruginea Brinn. Curlew Sandpiper. 
Genus EURYNORHYNCHUS Nusson. (Page 149, pl. XLIV., fig. 3.) 
Species. 
Summer adult : Head, neck, and chest rusty, the crown streaked and the back 
spotted with dusky ; scapulars and tertials lighter rusty, or ochraceous, the central 
portion of each feather black; wing-coverts brownish gray, with dusky shaft- 
streaks; lower parts from breast back, white, the sides more or less spotted with 
dusky. Winter plumage: Forehead, cheeks, and entire. under parts white; upper 
parts (except forehead) dusky, the feathers margined with pale grayish. Young: 
Back and scapulars dusky, the feathers bordered terminally with dull whitish, 
these borders becoming rusty on anterior portion of back and scapulars; wing- 
coverts dusky centrally, with still darker shaft-streaks, and margined with brown- 
ish gray, the greater tipped with white; top of head dull grayish, spotted with 
dusky, the feathers edged with rusty; rest of head, neck (except behind), and 
lower parts white, clouded with light grayish brown, and suffused with dull buffy 
anteriorly. Length about 6.00, wing 3.35-3.90, culmen .80-1.00, width of bill near 
tip about .45, tarsus .80-.90. Hab. Hastern Siberia in summer, straggling across to 
coast of Alaska (Choris Peninsula); in winter, south to India. 
245. E. pygmzeus (Linn.). Spoon-bill Sandpiper. 
