BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 95 
about one-fourth as long as wing, the acrotarsium with rather large 
transverse scutella, the planta tarsi with much smaller quadrate 
scales, the sides of tarsus with small hexagonal scales; middle toe, 
without claw, more than half as long as tarsus, the outer and inner 
toes, successively, much shorter; hallux absent; a well-developed web 
between basal phalanges of outer and middle toes, but none between 
inner and middle toes. 
Coloration.—Adults with chest brownish gray or grayish brown, 
margined below by a narrow dusky and broad white band; breast and 
sides cinnamon, encircling a dusky abdominal area; a broad white 
supra-auricular stripe; scapulars, wing-coverts, and tertials dusky 
broadly margined with buffy. Young conspicuously streaked on 
upper parts with buffy, the under parts mostly buffy. 
Range.—Northern Europe and Asia, south in winter to northern 
Africa, etc.; accidental in Alaska. (Monotypic.) 
EUDROMIAS MORINELLUS (Linnezus). 
DOTTEREL. 
Adulis in breeding plumage (sexes alike) —Pileum dull black or 
blackish fuscous, more or less streaked, especially medially and 
anteriorly (sometimes on forehead only) with pale buff, the anterior 
portion of forehead dull whitish, dull pale buffy or pale grayish, 
streaked or immaculate; a broad white superciliary stripe, extending 
from lores to nape, where those of opposite sides are confluent; 
loral, suborbital and malar regions, chin, and throat white, more or 
less streaked, narrowly, with dusky, the chin and throat, however, 
usually immaculate or nearly so; upper portion of auricular region 
dusky, the lower posterior portion, together with neck (all round) 
and chest light brownish gray or grayish drab, the chest somewhat 
paler and sometimes tinged with buffy; general color of upper parts 
grayish drab, the scapulars, tertials, and wing-coverts margined with 
buff or cinnamon-buff, the interscapulars sometimes narrowly mar- 
gined with the same; rump and upper tail-coverts pale grayish drab, 
indistinctly margined with buffy; remiges and primary coverts darker 
grayish brown or dusky, the secondaries and terminal portion of 
proximal primaries margined with dull buffy white; outermost 
primary with shaft white; tail grayish drab passing into dusky subter- 
minally and tipped with pale brownish buff or buffy white, more broadly 
on lateral rectrices; a narrow band or bar, more or less distinct, of 
blackish or dusky across lower margin of chest, and immediately 
below this a broader band of white or buffy white; breast, sides, and 
flanks plain, tawny-olive, or sayal brown; abdomen (extensively), 
except lower portion, black; lower abdomen, anal region, and under 
tail-coverts immaculate white to pale buff; axillars and under wing- 
