290 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Tringa cooperi Barrv, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 716 (Raynor South, 
Long Island, New York; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am.), 
atlas, pl. 89, fig. 1; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 527.—Covss, Check List, 
1873, no. 422; Birds Northwest, 1874, 491.—Maynarp, Birds Eastern N. 
Am., 1879, 521,—Extior, N. Am. Shore Birds, 1895, 79. 
[Tringa] cooperi Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 49, no. 10309. 
[Tringa] cooperii Cougs, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 255. 
T{ringa] coopert Ripaway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 157. 
Actodromas (Heteropygia) coopert Cours, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 202 
(monogr.). 
Actodromas cooperi Ripaway, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 199; 
Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 535.—Covss, Check List,'2d ed., 1882, no. 
618.—Bairp, Brewer, and Ripeway, Water Birds N. Am., i, 1884, 226. 
Tringa (Actodromas) ‘coopert AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ Union, Check List, 
1886, 352 (in Hypothetical List); 2d ed., 1895, 328 (in Hypothetical List). 
A[ctodromas] cooperi? Cours, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 627. 
[Actodromas] coopert Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., viii, 1867, 294 (Long Island). 
Heteropygia cooperi Suarpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 574, footnote. 
[Heteropygia]? cooperi SHarre, Hand-list, i, 1899, 164. 
Pisobia coopert AMERICAN OnnirHotoeists’ Union, Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 371. 
PISOBIA RUFICOLLIS (Pallas). 
RUFOUS-NECEED SANDPIPER. 
Nearest P. minuta,* but wing and tail averaging decidedly longer, 
bill and tarsus shorter, the bill stouter (especially toward base); 
summer adults with throat and foreneck plain cinnamon-rufous 
(instead of white flecked with grayish brown) and winter plumage 
lighter above. 
Adult male in summer.—Pileum (except anterior and lateral 
portions of forehead) broadly streaked with black, the feathers 
edged with light rusty brown or cinnamon-rufous and dull whitish; 
hindneck light cinnamon-rufous more or less tinged or intermixed 
with pale grayish brown, narrowly and indistinctly streaked with 
dusky; interscapulars black centrally, light cinnamon-rufous laterally, 
the scapulars similar but the cinnamon-rufous more or less inter- 
mixed with brownish gray, the elongated posterior ones with little 
if any cinnamon-rufous; wing-coverts and tertials brownish gray 
margined with paler and with darker shaft-streaks, the anterior 
lesser coverts darker and more uniform grayish, the greater coverts 
tipped with white; proximal secondaries (next to tertials) mostly 
white, the distal ones dark brownish gray narrowly edged distally 
with white; primaries and primary coverts dark brownish gray or 
dusky, with white shafts, the proximal ones narrowly edged basally 
with white; rump and shorter upper tail-coverts blackish, the 
feathers narrowly margined terminally with pale gray and whitish; 
@ See p. 268. 
