726 SYNOPSIS OF 
purple ; lateral, shaded with ash gray ; breast, sides, and abdomen, white. 
In winter, lower parts, pale gray; upper parts with their purple tints 
much fainter. Male, 193, 143. “Habitat, from Hudson’s Bay to New York. 
Eggs, pyriform, yellowish gray, spotted with pale brown. 
Tringa maritima, Bonap. Syn. p. 318. Rich. & Swain. ii, 382. Aud. iii, 558; plate 
284; Syn. p, 233. 
351. Tringa rafescens, Vieill. — Buff-breasted Sandpiper. 
Bill, olive green; feet, yellowish green; upper parts, grayish yellow, 
each feather, blackish brown in the centre; quills and coverts, grayish 
brown, greenish black at the end, with the tip, whitish; inner webs, 
whitish, and dotted with black in undulating lines; two middle tail- 
feathers, grayish brown; at end, dark brown, glossed with green and tipped 
with white; head, neck, and sides, yellowish red, the throat paler; sides, 
spotted with brownish black; lower parts, paler and unspotted. Mule, 
8,18. Habitat, from Labrador to Pennsylvania. 
Tringa rufescens, Wutt. ii. 113. Aud. iii. 451; plate 2655 Syn. p. 233. 
352. Tringa subarquata, Temm.— Curlew Sandpiper. 
Bill, dark olive ; feet, light olive green; head, neck, and breast, light 
yellowish red ; sides, whitish ; lower tail-coverts, white, with a brownish 
black spot towards the end; on upper part of head, central parts of feath- 
ers, dark brown; hind neck and sides, streaked with same; upper parts 
mottled with brownish black and light red; rump, pale brownish gray; 
upper tail-coverts, white, spotted with brown and red ; tail, brownish ‘gray, 
Se a with green. Habitat, from Florida along the coast to high lati- 
tudes. : g 
Tringa subarquata, Bonap. Sym. p. 317. Mutt. ii. 104. Aud. ii 44; plate 263 ; 
Syn, p. 234. 
353. Tringa himantopus, Bonap.— Long-legged Sandpiper. 
Bill, ee black ; legs, yellowish. green. In summer, upper parts, 
brownish black, tinged with reddish white; rump, and upper fdil-coverts, 
white, transversely barred with dusky ; tail, light gray; primary coverts, 
brownish black ; secondaries, brownish. gray, margined with reddish 
white ; broad whitish line over eye; forepart and sides of neck, grayish 
white, tinged with red and streaked with dusky; lower parts, pale ted- 
dish, barred with dusky. In winter, the colors have a lighter shade. 
Male, 74 — 83,154 —17. Female,84 — 103,164— 18. Habitat, from Texas 
to Fur Countries. ; cae 
Tringa himantopus, Bonap. Sim. p. 316. Rich. §& Swain. ii. 380. Nutt. ii. pp. 138, 
140, 141. Aud. iv. 332; plate 344; Syn. p. 235.— Tringa Douglasii, Rich.. & 
Swain. ii. 235. 
354. Tringa Schinzii, Brehm. — Schinz’s Sandpiper. 
Bill and feet, dusky green; upper parts, brownish black, tinged with 
yellowish gray; the scapulars, with light red; wing-coverts, grayish 
brown, tipped with white; tail-feathers, white, with a dusky:spot, except 
the central two, which are blackish, with grayish white markings ; sides 
of head, fore neck, front of breast, grayish white, with small black spots; 
pi o lower parts, white. Male, 74, 143. Habitat, from Florida to 
abrador. 
Tringa Schinzii, Bonap. Syn. p. 249. Rich. & Swain. ii. 384: Nutt. ii. 109. Aud. 
iii. 529; plate 278 ; Syn. p. 236. 
355. Tringa arenaria. — Sanderling Sandpiper, Wilson, p. 508. 
Calidris arenaria, Rich. § Swain. ii. 366. Nutt. ii. 4.— Tring: arenaria, Bonap. 
Syn. p. 320, Aud. iii. 231 ; v. 583; plates 230 and 285; Symp. 997, 
