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Coloration.—Above brownish gray, barred, streaked, or irregularly 
marked with blackish; beneath mostly white, sometimes spotted 
with black or dusky; a broad, oblique band or white across inner 
webs of remiges. 
Range.—Northern hemisphere. (Two species.) 
KEY TO THE SPECIES OF ACTITIS. 
a. Summer adults with under parts everywhere spotted with blackish. (North 
America; Middle and South America in winter.)...... Actitis macularia (p. 372). 
aa. Summer adults with under parts immaculate white, except chest, which is pale 
grayish brown streaked with darker. (Northern Europe and Asia, migrating 
to South Africa, India, Australia, etc.)..... Acititis hypoleucos (extralimital).¢ 
ACTITIS MACULARIA (Linnzus). 
SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 
Adults in summer.—Upper parts greenish or bronzy grayish brown, 
with a faint metallic gloss, the pileum streaked with dusky, the back, 
scapulars, wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts irregularly 
marked with blackish, the markings mostly in form of transverse 
spots but intermixed, more or less, with others of more or less sagittate 
or lanceolate form; secondaries broadly tipped with white and with 
more than their basal half abruptly white; primaries plain dusky; tail 
bronzy grayish brown, the lateral rectrices broadly barred with white, 
the rest (except middle pair) tipped with white; a more or less 
distinct superciliary stripe of white (sometimes nearly obsolete); 
under parts white, marked everywhere (except on chin and upper 
throat—sometimes on these) with roundish spots of black or dusky; 
axillars immaculate white; inner webs of primaries (except outer- 
most) with a longitudinal patch of white, increasing in width toward 
the innermost, on which the white extends ‘to shaft; maxilla black, 
_ with yellowish tomia, the mandible mostly or wholly yellow (in life); 
iris dark brown; legs and feet pale grayish olive (in life). 
@[Tringa] hypoleucos Linneus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 149 (Sweden); ed. 12, i, 
1766, 250.—Tringa hypoleucos Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 171.—Actitis hypoleucos 
Boie, Isis, 1822, 560; Naumann, Vég. Deutschl., viii, 1836, 7, pl. 194; Stejneger, 
Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus. no. 29, 1885, 131.—Totanus hypoleucos Temminck, Man. 
d’Orn., 1815, 424; Vieillot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., vi, 1816, 407.— Totanus hypoleucus 
Seebohm, Geog. Distr. Charadriide, 1887,371.—Guinetta hypoleuca Gray, List Gen. 
Birds, 1840, 68.—Tringoides hypoleucus Bonaparte, Saggio Distr. Metod., 1831, 58; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 456, 762.—Totanus guinetta Leach, Syst. 
Cat. Mam., etc., Brit. Mus., 1816, 30 (ex, Tringa guinetta Brisson).—Trynga leucoptera 
Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., ii, 1826, 196.—(?) Tringa leucoptera Schalow, Journ. fiir 
Orn., 1891, 260 (Kodiak Island, Alaska).—Actitis cinclus Boie, Isis, 1826, 327.— 
Actitis stagnatilis Brehm, Vég. Deutschl., 1831, 649.—Actitis empusa Gould, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, 222 (Port Essington, Australia)—Totanus empusa Gray, 
Cat. Birds New Guinea, 1859, 52.—T'ringoides empusa Sclater, Jdurn. Proc. Linn. 
Soc., ii, 1858, 170.—[ Actitis] schlegeli Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 597. 
