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toe without claw, decidedly less than one-third as long as wing, scu- 
tellate anteriorly and posteriorly; bare portion of tibia about as 
long as lateral toes, scutellate before and behind; outer toe slightly 
longer than inner toe, both decidedly shorter than middle toe; a very 
small web between basal phalanges of outer and middle toes, but 
none between inner and middle toes. 
Coloration.—Under parts and upper tail-coverts mostly white; 
upper parts grayish brown, in summer blotched with blackish and 
speckled with whitish, the young speckled with brownish or rusty 
white only; head and neck streaked with grayish white and dusky; 
tail barred with dark grayish brown and white. 
Range.—Palearctic Region (casual in Alaska). (Monotypic.) 
RHYACOPHILUS GLAREOLA (Linnzus). 
WOOD SANDPIPER. 
Adulis in summer (sexes alike).—Pileum dusky, streaked with 
grayish white; hindneck grayish white (usually shaded with brownish 
gray along median line), narrowly streaked with dusky; back and 
scapulars brownish gray irregularly spotted (for the most part trans- 
versely) with blackish and with less numerous, mostly transverse or 
triangular, spots of dull whitish; rump darker brownish gray, the 
feathers narrowly margined with white; lesser wing-coverts nearly 
uniform dusky brownish gray, the middle coverts similar but with 
larger dusky and smaller dull whitish or pale grayish irregular spots, 
especially on proximal coverts; greater coverts and secondaries 
dusky brownish gray, very narrowly (sometimes indistinctly) edged 
with whitish; tertials brownish gray, broadly barred with blackish, 
the grayish interspaces becoming whitish on edges of feathers; alula, 
primary coverts, and primaries dull blackish or dusky, the shaft of 
outermost primary white; upper tail-coverts white, mostly immaculate, 
but the longer ones with a few dusky streaks, spots, or bars; tail 
barred with white and dusky, the former predominating on lateral 
rectrices, the latter on middle ones; a broad white supraloral stripe or 
spot, and beneath this a dusky loral streak, distinct and unbroken 
anteriorly; sides of head beneath eyes white or grayish white, nar- 
rowly streaked with dusky; chin and throat immaculate white; fore- 
neck white narrowly streaked with dusky; chest white to pale 
brownish gray (usually more grayish laterally), spotted and barred 
with dusky (less so on post-median portion); rest of under parts 
white, the sides (sometimes flanks also) irregularly barred with 
dusky brownish gray, the under tail-coverts with irregular bars or 
other markings of the same; axillars and under wing-coverts white, 
the former with irregular narrow bars, the latter with variously 
shaped markings of brownish gray; bill black, becoming more 
brownish (olive in life) basally; iris dark brown; legs and feet 
