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Winter plumage.—Without any black on sides of head or under 
parts, which are white on throat and abdomen, elsewhere pale grayish 
brown, streaked on chest, etc., with darker; upper parts less con- 
spicuously speckled with yellow. 
Young.—Similar to winter adults but upper parts more con- 
spicuously speckled with yellow, the chest and adjacent parts strongly 
tinged or suffused with buffy yellow. 
Downy young.—Upper parts dull buffy yellow (naples yellow or 
roustard yellow), irregularly mottled or marbled with black; forehead 
and superciliary region dull buffy yellow to pale yellowish buff, the 
former with an irregular median streak or series of spots, the latter 
with irregular markings of black or brownish black, the lores also 
with a central irregular streak or spot of the same; suborbital and 
malar regions and under parts dull white, the malar region with a 
rictal or post-rictal spot or streak, and on subauricular portion 
irregular markings of black. 
Adult male.—Wing, 171+189 (180.5); tail, 69-83 (74.4); culmen, 
21-24.5 (22.5); tarsus, 37-43 (40.5); middle toe, 24-26.5 (25.1).2 
Adult female-——Wing, 180-181 (180.2); tail, 70.5-72.5 (71.7); 
culmen, 22-23 (22.4); tarsus, 38-41 (39.5); middle toe, 23.5-26 
(24.7). 
Europe and Asia; breeding from British Islands (including Shet- 
lands) and central Europe to Iceland and Arctic coast of Europe and 
Asia as far eastward as valley of Yenesei River, Siberia; migrating 
southward to northern Africa (occasionally to southern Africa) and 
India; occasional or casual in southern Greenland (several records). 
[Charadrius] apricarius Linnzus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 150, part (Oeland 
Island, Sweden; ex Fauna Suecica, 156; etc.); ed. 12, i, 1766, 254.—Brtinnicx, 
Orn. Bor., 1764, 56.—GmeEtin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 687.—Laruam, Index 
Orn., ii, 1790, 742, part.—Turron, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 415..—Gray, Hand- 
list, iii, 1871, 13, no. 9982. 
Charadrius apricarius Fasricius, Faun. Groenl., 1780, 114.—Patuas, Zoogr. Rosso- 
Asiat., ti, 1826, 146.—Breum, Vég. Deutschl., 1831, 541, pl. 27, fig. 3—Hom, 
Naturhist. Tidsskr., 2d ser., ii, 1848, 485 (Faroé Islands).—KsaERBOLLING, 
Danm. Fugle, 1852, pl. 30, fig. 6—Sunprvatu, Svensk. Fogl., 1856-72, pl. 
36, figs. 2, 3.—Herveuin, Ibis, 1872, 62 (Novaya Zemlya; Yugorsky Strait 
and Waigats, n. Russia), 118 (Arctic Europe); Orn. N. Ost-Afrika, ii, pt. 
i, 1873, 1014 (Nile delta, in winter).—Paumin, Finlands Foglar, 1873, 91.— 
Reinwarpt, Vid. Medd. Forh. Kjobenhavn, 1874, nos. 12-16, 3 (Greenland); 
1881, 184 (Greenland).—Bairp, BREWER, and Ripaway, Water Birds N. Am., 
i, 1884, 138 —AmERIcAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ Union, Check List, 1886, and 2d 
ed., 1895, no. 271; 3rd ed., 1910, p. 127.—CuamsBerain (M.), Auk, vi, 1889, 
217 (s. Greenland, several records).—Frivatpsky, Av. Hung., 1891, 121. 
C[haradrius] aprigarius Ripaway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 173. 
@ Eleven specimens. b Four specimens. 
40017—19—Bull. 50, pt 8——7 
