BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 197 
LIMNODROMUS GRISEUS GRISEUS (Gmelin). 
‘ DOWITCHER. 
Adults in breeding plumage (sexes alike).—General color of upper 
parts dull light pinkish cinnamon to vinaceous-buff, the pileum, 
hindneck and interscapulars streaked with black (the black streaks 
very broad on back), the scapulars irregularly spotted with black, 
or black margined terminally and barred with the lighter color; 
anterior lesser wing-coverts dusky grayish brown, narrowly mar- 
gined with paler; middle coverts black centrally, irregularly mar- 
gined with pale dull pinkish cinnamon or vinaceous-buff; greater 
coverts grayish brown (more or less deep), edged and tipped with 
white, the secondaries similar but with white tip and edging broader 
and with a white streak on outer web near shaft; tertials black, ir- 
regularly barred and edged with light cinnamomeous; primary coverts 
and primaries dusky, the proximal primaries light brownish gray, 
margined with white and with an irregular dusky submarginal line; 
lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts white, the first often im- 
maculate, the rump spotted with blackish (the spots usually more 
or less cordate), the upper tail-coverts barred with the same; tail 
regularly barred with white and dusky or blackish, the bars and 
interspaces of approximately equal width, the middle rectrices some- 
times tinged with cinnamomeous; sides of head (including broad 
superciliary stripe) and neck, and under parts dull light pinkish 
cinnamon, usually more or less intermixed with white on under 
parts, especially on abdominal region, more or less spotted or speckled 
with dusky, the sides and flanks barred or transversely spotted with 
the same, the subloral and suborbital regions streaked or flecked 
with the same; lores thiekly flecked with dusky, forming a broad 
(sometimes nearly ‘‘solid’’) stripe from bill to eye, and upper margin 
of auricular region streaked with dusky; axillars and under wing- 
coverts white, the former with V-shaped bars, the latter with in- 
versely V- or U-shaped markings of dusky; inner webs of primaries 
plain brownish gray, indistinctly paler along edges; bill blackish, 
passing into olivaceous basally (in life); iris dark brown; legs and 
feet light yellowish olive or greenish olive (in life). 
Adults in winter.—Head, neck, back, scapulars, and wing-coverts 
nearly plain gray, the chest and sides also gray, more or less inter- 
mixed with white, the remaining under parts mostly immaculate 
white; an indistinct whitish superciliary stripe; wing-coverts mar- 
gined with whitish; otherwise as in summer adults. 
Young.—Back, scapulars, and tertials variegated with black and 
light clay color, the latter chiefly on edges of the feathers; under parts 
dull whitish, more or less suffused with dull buff or pale clay color, 
