854 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
this increasing toward the middle pair of rectrices, which, for the 
exposed portion, are dusky barred with white—thé next to outer- 
most pair, however, without any dusky on inner web, and with only 
one or two dusky spots near end of outer web; a white supraloral 
stripe, extending to above eyes; lores streaked or flecked with dusky, 
sometimes with a dusky line from bill to eye; suborbital and malar 
regions white, more or less streaked with dusky; chin and throat 
immaculate white, the lower throat, however, usually more or less 
streaked or flecked with dusky; foreneck and chest white, rather 
broadly streaked with dusky, the lower chest, especially laterally, 
usually with markings more irregular, often V-shaped or more or 
less transverse; rest of under parts immaculate white; axillars and 
under wing-coverts deep grayish brown (like back, etc.), narrowly 
barred with white; bill black, slightly more brownish basally; iris 
dark brown; legs and feet greenish gray or bluish gray, tinged with 
greenish (in life). 
Winter plumage.—Similar to the summer plumage, but pileum and 
hindneck plain brownish gray (sometimes indistinctly streaked with 
darker), back, scapulars, and tertials with much smaller and, usually, 
fewer spots, mostly along edges of the feathers, and chest and sides 
of neck nearly uniform brownish gray, the foreneck and median 
portion of chest rather less distinctly streaked than in summer. 
Young.—Similar to the winter plumage, but spotting of upper 
parts more brownish. 
Adult male.--Wing, 132-145 (136.7); tail, 55-60 (57.6); exposed 
culmen, 30-36 (33.7); tarsus, 30.5-36 (33.3); middle toe, 24-29 
(26.2).¢ 
Adult female.—Wing, 134-144 (140.2); tail, 57-63 (60.5); exposed 
culmen, 31.5-36.5 (34.4); tarsus, 31-35 (32.9); middle toe, 25-28 
(26.3).° 
@ Seven specimens. b Ten specimens. 
Ex- * 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. | posed | Tarsus. Mind 
culmen. ‘i 
MALES. 
One adult male from Greece.......--.---..eeeeceee sence eee eeee 145 60 34 34.5 27 
Three adult males from India........-2........ce eee e ence eee 135.7 57.7 | 847) 33 25.7 
Three adult males from China........---..-2-.2--e0e--eeeeeeees 135 56.7 32.7 33.2 26.5 
FEMALES, : 
Three adult females from Europe (including 1 from Egypt)....| 137 59.3 32. 8 31.7 26 
One adult female from India............-..-22-.cee eee eee ecco ee 144 62 36 35 28 
Six adult females from China (4) and Japan (2)...............5 141.2 60. 8 35 $2.9 26.1 
According to Mathews (Birds of Australia, iii, pt. 2, May 2, 1918, 203) the birds 
from eastern Asia are separable as a subspecies (T'ringa ocrophus assami Mathews), 
which breeds in Siberia and migrates southward as far as the Malay Archipelago. 
