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dd. Bill stouter, especially toward base; summer adults with throat and fore- 
neck plain cinnamon-rufous; winter plumage lighter above. (Eastern 
Siberia to Commander Islands, migrating southward to Malay Archipelago 
and Australia; casual or occasional in Alaska.) . Pisobia ruficollis (p. 290). 
cc. Tail graduated (slightly); only the outermost primary with shaft white; outer- 
most rectrices white; summer adult not at all rufescent above; legs and feet 
grayish or olivaceous. (Northern Europe and Asia, migrating to Africa, 
India, Ceylon, etc.)....---...---.---- Pisobia temminckii (extralimital).¢ 
bb. Middle toe, with claw, longer than tarsus, decidedly longer than exposed cul- 
men,*the latter more than one-fifth as long as wing. 
c. Middle toe, with claw, less than one-fourth as long as wing (middie toe, without 
claw, 15-17); all the primaries with shafts at least partly white. (North 
America, breeding northward; South America in migration.) 
Pisobia minutilla (p. 294). 
ce. Middle toe, with claw, more than one-fourth as long as wing (middle toe, 
without claw, 19-21.5); only the outermost primary with shaft white. 
(Northeastern Asia, migrating to Malay Archipelago, Australia, etc.; casual 
or occasional in western Alaska.).......--..-- Pisobia subminuta (p. 300). 
PISOBIA MACULATA (Vieillot). 
PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 
Adults in summer.—General color of upper parts light drab, streaked 
and spotted with black, the black predominating on scapulars and 
interscapulars, in the form of central spots, and on the pileum the 
black streaks, rather broader than the buffy drab ones; brown edgings 
or margins of scapulars, especially the posterior ones, more or less 
tinged or intermixed with cinnamon or rusty; wing-coverts grayish 
brown or drab distinctly, but not sharply, margined with paler, the 
greater coverts narrowly tipped with dull buffy whitish; secondaries 
grayish brown, narrowly edged with paler and margined terminally with 
dull buffy white; primary coverts and primaries darker grayish brown, 
the latter indistinctly and very narrowly edged with paler, the shaft 
of outermost quill entirely yellowish white, the shafts of other quills 
light brown, becoming paler (brownish white) subterminally; rump 
and median upper tail-coverts sooty black, indistinctly margined with 
brownish, the lateral upper tail-coverts white with a median cuneate 
or sagittate streak of dusky, mostly on outer web; middle pair of 
@ Tringa iemminckii Leisler, Nachtr. Bechst. Naturg. Deutschl., ii, 1812, 78 (near 
Hanau on the Main); Naumann, Vég. Deutschl., vii, 1836, 483; xiii, 1847, 234; Yar- 
rell, Hist. Brit. Birds, ed. 2, iii, 1845, 70; ed. 3, 1856, 74; Macgillivray, Hist. Brit. 
Birds, iv, 1852, 232.—T'inga temmincki Dresser, Birds Europe, viii, 1871, 45, pl. 549, 
fig. 1; pl. 551, fig. 2.—Pelidna temmincki Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., xii, pt. i, 
1824, 103.—Calidris temminckiit Cuvier, Régne Anim., ed. 2, i, 1829, 526.—Leimoniies 
temminckit Kaup, Natiirl. Syst., 1829, 37; Gould, Birds Great Brit., iv, 1873, pl. 73 
and text.—Limonites temminckii Giglioli, Ibis, 1865, 61.—Limonites temmincki Sharpe, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 555.—[Pisobia] temmincki Lénnberg, Journ. fiir Orn., 
Oct., 1906, 533.—Scheniclus temminckii Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Gralle, 1844, 
106.—[ Actodromas] temminckii Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 596.—Pelidna 
gracilis Brehm, Vogelf., 1855, 318. 
