294 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Nederl. Ind., xxv, 1863, 255; Reis. naar Geelvinkb., 1875, 8; Malay Archip., 
1878-79, 278, 373 (Ke Island), 565.—Hartiavs and Fin'scu, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
Lond., 1868, 8, 118; 1872, 106 (Pelew Islands); Vég. Ostafr., 1870, 764, part.— 
Watpen, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., viii, 1872, 97 (Celebes).—Hume, Stray 
Feath., i, 1873, 315 (Andaman Islands); ii, 1874, 289 (Andamans; Nicobars, 
Dec.-June); iii, 1875, 323 (Mergui)—ArmstronG, Stray Feath., iv, 1876, 
342 (Elephant Point)—Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8. W., i, 1876, 375 
(Duke of York Island); Tweeddale’s Orn. Works, 1881, 196.—Sanvapor1, 
Ann. Mus. Genov., xiv, 1879, 666—MeryeEr, Ibis, 1879, 143 (Limbotto, 
July).—Finscu, Ibis, 1881, 540 (New. Britain); Vig. Stidsee, 1884, 5, 23.— 
Srrsoum, Birds Jap. Empire, 1890, 327 (Kuril Islands). 
Tringa temmincki (not of Leisler) BLaxiston, Ibis, 1862, 330 (n. Japan, Aug.). 
Trynga salina Pauuas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., ii, 1826, 199 (Dauria and Desert of 
Mongolia; Yenisei; Kamchatka and the islands opposite America). 
Tringa salina Dysowsxr and Parvex, Journ. fiir Orn., 1868, 337 (Darasun).— 
SwinHoE, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 409; Ibis, 1873, 231 (off Cochin 
China, May), 426 (Shanghai, April)—Buyru and WaLpEn, Birds Burma, 
1875, 156—Briiacemann, Abh. nat. Ver. Bremen, v, 1876, 463.—Tacza- 
NowskI, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i, 1876, 253. 
Tringa minutilla (not of Vieillot) Bran, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 164 (Plover 
Bay, e. Siberia; see Stejneger, Auk, v, 1888, 308). 
PISOBIA MINUTILLA (Vieillot). 
LEAST SANDPIPER. 
Adults in swummer.—Pileum light grayish fulvous, or pale buffy 
brownish, broadly streaked with blackish, the hindneck more 
grayish and more narrowly and less distinctly streaked; scapulars 
and interscapulars blackish margined and somewhat barred, irreg- 
ularly and mostly on subbasal (concealed) portion, with pale fulvous 
or cinnamon, some of the feathers margined terminally with whitish; 
wing-coverts deep grayish brown, paler toward margins, and blackish 
shafts, the greater coverts rather narrowly tipped with white; tertials 
dusky, passing into grayish brown on edges and narrowly margined 
terminally with paler; distal half of secondaries dusky, margined 
terminally with white, the proximal half (concealed by greater 
coverts) pale grayish brown; primaries and primary coverts dusky, 
the proximal primaries narrowly edged toward base with pale gray 
or whitish; rump and median upper tail-coverts (broadly) plain 
sooty black; lateral upper tail-coverts white with narrow mesial 
streaks of dusky; middle pair of rectrices dusky grayish brown, 
narrowly edged with paler, the remaining rectrices light grayish 
brown with shafts white (except terminally); a broad superciliary 
stripe of dull grayish whitish, distinct and nearly immaculate for 
anterior half, indistinctly and narrowly streaked with dusky for pos- 
terior (supra-auricular) ‘portion; loral and auricular regions pale 
grayish brown, the former minutely flecked the latter narrowly 
streaked with dusky; chest, foreneck, sides of breast, and sides of 
neck pale grayish brown or pale buffy grayish, narrowly (the first 
