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to this, with a few irregular narrow dusky bars. Inner web of outer quill marked 
with broad bars of white, on other quills broken up into a confused mottling; axil- 
lars white regularly barred with clear slate-color ; belly and lower tail-coverts plain 
dull whitish or very pale buff (buff and ochraceous tints much deeper in winter). 
Young : Similar to adult, but buffy tints deeper, dusky streaks on fore-neck and chest 
much less distinct, and the back plain dusky, with distinct buff margins to the 
feathers. Downy young: Above coarsely and irregularly mottled with blackish on 
a grayish white ground tinged with light rusty; lower parts buffy white, with 
several blackish spots on flanks, one beneath eye, a smaller one on lores, and a 
larger, nearly perpendicular one behind ears. Length 11.00-12.75, wing 6.50-7.00, 
culmen 1.10-1.15, tarsus 1.90-2.05, middle toe .90-1.05. Eggs 1.79 x 1.30, ovate or 
short-ovate, creamy buff or dull buffy white, speckled and spotted, chiefly round 
larger end, with dark brown and purplish gray. Hab. Eastern and central North 
America in general, west to edge of the Great Basin, north to the Yukon Valley and 
Nova Scotia; south, in winter, to Brazil and Peru; occasional in Europe, and 
accidental in Australia...... 261. B. longicauda (Becust.). Bartramian Sandpiper. 
Genus TRYNGITES Casanis. (Page 148, pl. LIT, fig. 2.) 
Species. 
Upper parts dull grayish buff or brownish, varied with blackish; lower parts 
buff, streaked or speckled on chest with dusky; axillars white; under primary 
coverts and inner webs of quills beautifully mottled or speckled with dusky on a 
whitish ground. Adult: Feathers of back, etc., blackish centrally, and without 
whitish borders. Young: Feathers of back, etc., distinctly bordered with whitish, 
the black and brown less sharply contrasted ; mottling on inner webs of quills, and 
under primary coverts, much more minute and delicate than in adult. Length 
7.00-8.90, wing 5.10-5.50, culmen .75-.80, tarsus 1.15-1.30, middle toe .75-.85. Eggs 
1.53 X 1.04, buffy grayish white, varying to pale olive-buff, boldly spotted, longitu- 
dinally (and somewhat spirally) with dark vandyke- or madder-brown and purplish 
gray. -Hab. North America in general, especially the interior, breeding far north- 
ward; south, in winter, to Uruguay and Peru; occasional in Europe. 
262. T. subruficollis (VIzILL.). Buff-breasted Sandpiper. 
Genus ACTITIS Bor. (Page 148, pl. LIL, fig. 1.) 
Species. 
Common Cuaracters.—Above plain grayish brown, with a faint greenish or 
bronzy lustre, in summer adults or young slightly relieved by more or less of dusky 
streaking or barring, or both; outer tail-feathers barred with white, the rest (ex- 
cept middle pair) tipped with the same; secondaries broadly tipped with white, 
and with more than their basal half (abruptly) white; inner webs of second to 
tenth quills (inclusive) with a longitudinal white patch, increasing in depth toward 
the tenth, on which it touches the shaft; superciliary stripe (sometimes not very 
distinct) and lower parts chiefly pure white. 
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