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feathers with rather indistinct narrow mesial streaks of dusky; under 
parts as in summer, but streaks on chest, etc., less sharply defined. 
Young.—Scapulars and interscapulars blackish margined termi- 
nally with white and edged laterally with cinnamon-rufous or rusty, 
the median interscapulars tipped with the latter color; feathers of 
pileum, and rump, as well as tertials, dusky margined with rusty; 
wing-coverts margined with pale grayish buffy; otherwise as in 
winter plumage, but chest, etc., tinged, more or less strongly, with 
buffy or pale fulvous. 
Adult male—Wing, 117-122.5 (119.7); tail, 50-53 (51.4); exposed 
culmen, 21-24 (22.7); tarsus, 22-24 (23.1); middle toe, 18-21 (19.2).% 
Adult female—Wing, 116.5-124 (120.6); tail, 50-54 (51); exposed 
culmen, 21-26 (23.1); tarsus, 22-24 (22.8); middle toe, 19-19.5 
(19.1)? 
Breeding along or near Arctic coast of North America, from north- 
western Mackenzie to Cumberland Island; occurring also in summer 
(but not breeding?) west to Point Barrow, Alaska, and east to Green- 
land; migrating southward, eastward of Rocky Mountains, chiefly 
through Mississippi Valley, to southern South America, wintering in 
Paraguéy (Rio Pilcomayo; Rio Parané), Uruguay (Montevidéo), 
Argentina (Buenos Aires; Ranchos; Los Inglesas; near Esquina, 
Cape San Anténio; Entre Rios; Mocovi; Cérdova; Puerto San Julian, 
Patagonia; central Patagonia), southern Chile (Gregory Bay, Straits 
of Magellan; Punta Anegada, Tierra del Fuego), and Falkland 
Islands; in transit occurs sparingly at intermediate points south of 
United States, the few Middle American records being as follows, in 
part: Cuba; Jamaica; Barbuda; Santa Lucia; Guadeloupe; Barbados, 
in West Indies; Bermudas, frequent in autumn; Yucatén (Tizimin; 
Cozumel Island); Nicaragua (Momotombo); Panama (Lion Hill). 
Casual in Europe (Franz Josef Land, June 28, 1897; San Miguel, 
Azores; British Islands, 9 records). 
Tringa fuscicollis Vierutot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., xxxiv, 1819, 461 (Paraguay; 
based on Chorlito pestorejo pardo Azara, Apunt. Parag., iii, 1805, 322).— 
Hartiaus, Index Azara’s Apunt., 1847, 25.—Dressrr, Birds Europe, viii, 
1873, 15 pl. 547.—Brrtzpscn, Journ. fiir Orn., 1874, 263 (Santa Catarina; 
8. Brazil; synonymy; crit.); 1887, 36 (Rio Pilcomayo, Paraguay, Jan.), 126 
(Paraguay).—Covgs, Birds Northwest, 1874, 487.—Scuarer, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. Lond., 1876, 14 (Santa Lucia, Lesser Antilles)—Durnrorp, Ibis, 
1878, 68 (Buenos Aires, spring and autumn), 404 (centr. Patagonia, common, 
“resident”’).—Merrrit, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 161 (Fort Brown, 
Texas).—SciaTer and Satvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 438 (Falkland 
Islands); Voy. ‘Challenger,’ ii, pt. viii, 1881, 109 (Peckett Harbor, Falk- 
land Islands).—Maynarp, Birds E. N. Am., 1879, 382.—ALLEN, Bull. Nutt. 
Orn. Club, v, 1880, 169 (Santa Lucia); Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., ii, 1889, 109 
(Falls of Rio Madeira, Bolivia, Oct.); v, 1893, 150 (Chapada, Mattogrosso, 
a Twelve specimens, 6 Two specimens. 
