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immaculate white; axillars sooty blackish; bill black; iris dark 
brown; legs and feet dull black or grayish black. 
Winter plumage.—Sides of head and under parts white, the former 
more or less streaked with dusky, the foreneck and chest shaded with 
brownish gray and slightly streaked or mottled with dusky; upper 
parts without black spotting, the general color being brownish gray 
or grayish brown, broken by whitish margins and darker grayish 
submargins to the feathers; otherwise, essentially as in summer. 
Young.—Similar to winter adults but upper parts more or less dis- 
tinctly speckled with light buff-yellowish. 
Downy young.—Above olive-yellowish marbled with blackish, the 
hindneck white; a blackish line along sides of crown, another across 
lores, from bill to eye, and a less distinct, somewhat curved line of 
black beneath eye; underparts white. 
Adult male.—Wing, 178-199 (189.3); tail, 68-82 (75.4); culmen, 
29.5-31.5 (30.4); tarsus, 42-51 (45.3); middle toe, 25.5-29.5 (28.4).¢ 
Adult female.—Wing, 179-196 (187.5); tail, 69-84 (73.7); culmen, 
27.5-31 (29.5); tarsus, 41.5-48.5 (44.7); middle toe, 26-28 (27.4).¢ 
Breeding in circumpolar regions; in North America from Noatak 
River, Point Barrow, etc., Alaska to Boothia and Melville peninsulas; 
in migration practically cosmopolitan, though almost wanting from 
the whole of Oceania (recorded only as an accidental visitor to 
Hawaii); in South America migrating as far as southern Brazil 
(Cujutuba; San Sebastiao; Sao Paulo, etc.), Paraguay, Peru (Chim- 
bote), and Galapagos Archipelago (Albemarle, Charles, Chatham, 
Hood, and Jervis islands); in Eastern Hemisphere migrating south- 
ward as far as Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea, etc. 
[Tringa] squatarola Linnzxus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 149 (Sweden); ed. 12, i, 
1766, 252.—Brtnnicu, Orn. Bor., 1768, 52.—Gmeuin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 
1789, 682.—LatHam, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 729.—Tunrron, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 
411. 
a Twelve specimens. 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. Cul- Tarsus. Middle 
men. toe. 
MALES, 
Two adult males from France (migrants)...............-..---. 195 80. 5 30. 2 45.7 27.2 
Eight adult males from Altantic coast, United States (migrants)| 186.4 |’ 73.2 30. 6 43.9 27.9 
Two adult males from Alaska.......22..20002.-eeee eee eee eens 195.5 79.2 30 50. 5 29.5 
FEMALES, 
One adult female from England (migrant)....................- 182. 5 WP 2t5 44.5 27.5 
Two adult females from France (migrants)............-....--- 193.5 73 29 46.5 27.7 
One adult female from Russia (lower Petchora River) ......... 189 74 31 48.5 28 
Two adult females from Greenland (including Franklin Bay). .| 188.5 74.5 29 44.5 27.2 
Four adult females from Atlantic Coast, United States (migrants)| 187.5 72.7| 29.7) 43.9 27.2 
One adult female from Arctic coast east of Fort Anderson ..... 185 84 31 44 28 
. 69 30 41.5 26 
-One adult female from Grenada, Lesser Antilles (migrant) .....| 179 
