324 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
grayish basally; iris dark brown; legs and feet dusky (yellowish gray 
or olive-gray, the joints more bluish, in life).* 
Winter plumage.—Scapulars and interscapulars brownish gray 
margined with whitish, the foreneck, etc., unstreaked; otherwise as 
in summer. 
Young.—Similar to the winter plumage, but scapulars and inter- 
scapulars rather lighter brownish gray, margined with paler gray or 
grayish white and with a sub-edging of dusky in form of an irregular 
dusky line near to and parallel with the margin, and tertials with 
short zig-zag oblique bars along edges of both webs; foreneck, chest, 
and sides immaculate white. m 
Downy young.— Upper parts black and gray, with reddish tinge; 
forehead, sides of head, and whole under parts white; a steak through 
the eye, a fine line along the forehead, a larger spot on the crown, a 
few lines or spots over the arm, sides of rump, and tail-down black, 
often mixed with reddish brown.’”? 
Adult male.-—Wing, 178-191 (182:5); tail, 70-83 (76); exposed 
cuimen, 52-58 (54.8); tarsus, 53.5-63 (58.5); middle toe, 32-34.5 
(82.3) .° 
Adult female.—Wing, 176-189 (184.4); tail, 70-82 (76.4); exposed 
culmen, 50.5-57 (54.9); tarsus, 51-61 (57.9); middle toe 31-35 
(33.1) .? 
Breeding in northern Europe and Asia (highlands of Scotland, 
fells of Norway, Sweden, etc., and valleys of Petchora and Obb, 
Siberia, lat. 60° to 66° N.); migrating southward to southern Africa, 
India, Burma, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Java, Philippine 
Istands, Australia, etc., wintering northward to China and Mediter- 
ranean basin; accidental in Florida (also in southern Brazil, Argen- 
tina, and Chile ?); not recorded from Iceland nor Greenland. 
@ Stejneger, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 29, 1885, 128, footnote. 
b Dresser, Birds of Europe, viii, 1871, 175. 
¢ Ten specimens. 
@ Hight specimens. 
Ex- 
Locality. . | Wing. | Tail. Ee Tarsus. ge 
men. 
MALES, 
Four adult males from Europe...........2.-22.020eeecee eee eee 182.5 77 55.7 58.7 | 32.9 
Six adult males from eastern Asia ............2..2. 022 eee eee ee 182.9 75.4 54. 2 58.4] 33.8 
FEMALES. 
One adult female from Europe...........--..eceeeeeeueeeeeees 185° a 59 34 
Seven adult females from eastern Asia.............00..2000000e 184.3 75.6 54.9 57.8 32.9 
