96 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. # 
coverts pale brownish gray; bill black; iris dark brown; legs and feet 
dusky (in dried skins). 
Winter plumage.—Pileum conspicuously streaked with black and 
buffy (more or less deep); a supra-auricular stripe of immaculate 
cinnamon-buff to buffy white, extending from above eyes to nape, 
where those of opposite sides are confluent; hindneck light brownish 
gray, more or less distinctly streaked with buffy; interscapulars, 
scapulars, and wing-coverts deeper brownish gray, broadly margined 
with cinnamon-buff, the tertials darker (dusky) broadly margined 
with cinnamon; loral, suborbital, rictal, and malar regions and lower 
portion of auricular region pale buff or buffy whitish, narrowly 
streaked with dusky; chin and throat immaculate buffy white, the 
lower throat and foreneck becoming gradually more buffy and nar- 
rowly streaked with dusky; chest pale brownish gray, the feathers 
indistinctly but rather broadly tipped with buff; a narrow band of 
dull whitish separating the jugular area from a similarly colored 
area covering sides of breast and (more narrowly) median portion 
of breast, the anterior portion of sides nearly uniform buffy wood 
brown; rest of under parts, including abdomen, immaculate white, 
passing into cinnamon-buffy on lateral under tail-coverts; otherwise, 
as in summer plumage. 
Young.—Similar to winter adults but scapulars and interscapulars 
fuscous-black broadly edged or margined with pale buff; under parts 
pale buffy, the chest more or less streaked medially and spotted 
laterally with grayish brown, and pale band between chest and 
breast less distinct. 
Downy young.—‘ Black above, mottled with spots of rufous or 
sandy buff; head patterned with black, with a conspicuous white, 
forehead and eyebrow, with a black loral streak and line of black 
down the centre of the forehead; round the back of the head a creamy 
white band.’’4 
Adult male.—Wing, 144-149.5. (146.9); tail, 67-72 (69); culmen, 
16-16.5 (16.2); tarsus, 34-36 (34.7); middle toe, 18-20.5 (19.1)? 
Adult female.—Wing, 137-159 (147.6); tail, 66.5—73 (68.9) ; culmen, 
15-19 (16.3); tarsus, 35-38.5 (36.1); middle toe, 19-21 (20).° 
Breeding in northern Europe and Asia, from British Islands and 
Norway to eastern Siberia; migrating southward to southern Europe 
and northern Africa; accidental in Alaska (King Island, July 23, 1897). 
[Charadrius] morinellus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 148 (Sweden); ed. 
12, i, 1766, 254.—Gueuin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 686—Latnam, Index 
Orn., ii, 1790, 746.—Turton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 413.—Grar, Hand-list, iti, 
1871, 14, no. 9989. 
@ Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxvi, 237. 
b Five specimens. 
¢ Seven specimens. 
