170 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
a. Summer adult with lower parts marked everywhere with roundish spots of 
blackish. Winter adult: Above plain grayish olive, with a faint bronze gloss, 
with no markings except dusky shaft-streaks, except on wing-coverts, which 
are more or less barred with dusky; lower parts immaculate white, faintly 
shaded across chest with brownish gray, most distinct laterally. Young: 
Similar to winter plumage, but wing-coverts, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts 
more or less barred with pale dull buff and dusky. Downy young: Above 
yellowish gray, with a narrow black stripe down back, continued anteriorly 
to the bill; a narrow black line on each side of head, through eye; lower 
parts dull white. Length about 7.00-8,00, wing 4.05-4.60, culmen .90-1.05, 
tarsus .90-1.05. Hygs 2-5, 1.25 x .90, short-ovate, buffy, more or less thickly 
speckled and spotted with dark brown and black. Hab. Whole of North 
America; south, in winter, through West Indies, Middle America, and northern 
South America to Brazil: accidental or occasional in Europe. 
263. A. macularia (Liny.). Spotted Sandpiper. 
a, Summer adult with lower parts plain white, except chest, which is pale brownish 
gray, streaked with darker. 
Other plumages very similar to corresponding stages of A. macularia ; 
length about 6.50-7.50, wing 3.80-4.40, culmen 1.00-1.05, tarsus .95-1.05. 
Hab. Northern portions of eastern hemisphere, east to Commander 
Islands, Kamtschatka. 
A. hypoleucos (Liny.). Common Sandpiper (of Europe). 
Genus NUMENIUS Brisson. (Page 149, pl. XLIX., fig. 2.) 
Species. 
a}. Feathers of thighs without lengthened bristly points. 
&. Rump not white. 
cl. Secondaries and quills rusty cinnamon, the outer webs of latter dusky ; 
axillars deep cinnamon, without distinct bars; lower parts pale cin- 
namon. 
Above pale cinnamon, tinged here and there with grayish, varied, 
transversely, with blackish, the top of head narrowly streaked 
with dusky, but without median light stripe; secondaries and 
quills cinnamon-rufous, the outer webs of the latter dusky. 
Downy young: Buffy yellow, deeper above, tinged with sulphur- 
yellow beneath; upper parts coarsely and irregularly marbled 
with black ; bill straight, about 1.40 long. Length about 20.00- 
26.00, wing 10.00-11.00, culmen 2.30 (young of year)-8.50, tar- 
sus 3.00-3.50. Eggs 2-4, 2.59 x 1.81, light grayish buff or pale 
buffy brown, spotted, blotched, or speckled with umber-brown. 
Hab. Whole of temperate North America, migrating south to 
Guatemala, Cuba, and Jamaica. 
264. N. longirostris Wits. Long-billed Curlew. 
1 Tringa hypoleucos Linn., S. N. ed. 10, i, 1758, 149. Actitis hypoleucoe Born, Isis, 1822, 560. 
