160 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



brown. Sab. North America in general, breeding far 



northward; eastern Asia.... 243a. T. alpina pacifica 



(Coues). Red-backed Sandpiper. 



(P. Tarsus one and a half times as long as the middle toe, with claw ; 



upper tail-coverts entirely white ; head, neck, and lower parts 



rufous or chestnut in summer adult. (Subgenus Ancylocheilus 



Kaup.) &^^o- 



Summer adult: Head, neck, and lower parts (except anal 

 region and lower tail-coverts), deep cinnamon-rufous or 

 chestnut; upper parts varied with blackish and rusty. 

 Winter plumage : Above plain brownish gray, with indis- 

 tinct dusky shaft-streaks ; superciliary stripe, upper tail- 

 coverts, and lower parts, white, the chest indistinctly 

 streaked with grayish. Young : Back and scapulars 

 dusky, the feathers edged with dull buffy or light ochra- 

 ceous, and bordered terminally with whitish; lesser and 

 middle wing-coverts bordered terminally with dull buff; 

 otherwise much like winter plumage, but chest and sides 

 of breast washed with dull buff. Length about 7.00-9.00, 

 wing 4.80-5.20, culmen 1.38-1.60, tarsus 1.10-1.20. Eggs 

 1.50 X 1-04, pale grayish or greenish buffy, spotted with 

 deep brown, etc. (hardly distinguishable from eggs of T. 

 maculata or T. alpina pacified). Sab. Eastern hemisphere 

 in general ; occasional in eastern North America and in 

 Alaska 244. T. ferruginea Brunn. Curlew Sandpiper. 



Genus EURYNORHYNCHUS Nilsson. (Page 149, pi. XLIV., fig. 3.) 



Species. 



Summer adult : Head, neck, and chest rusty, the crown streaked and the back 

 spotted with dusky ; scapulars and tertials lighter rusty, or ochraceous, the central 

 portion of each feather black; wing-coverts brownish gray, with dusky shaft- 

 streaks ; lower parts from breast back, white, the sides more or less spotted with 

 dusky. Winter plumage : Forehead, cheeks, and entire- under parts white ; upper 

 parts (except forehead) dusky, the feathers margined with pale grayish. Young : 

 Back and scapulars dusky, the feathers bordered terminally with dull whitish, 

 these borders becoming rusty on anterior portion of back and scapulars ; wing- 

 coverts dusky centrally, with still darker shaft-streaks, and margined with brown- 

 ish gray, the greater tipped with white ; top of head dull grayish, spotted with 

 dusky, the feathers edged with rusty; rest of head, neck (except behind), and 

 lower parts white, clouded with light grayish brown, and suffused with dull buffy 

 anteriorly. Length about 6.00, wing 3.35-3.90, culmen .80-1.00, width of bill near 

 tip about .45, tarsus .80-.90. Sab. Eastern Siberia in summer, straggling across to 

 coast of Alaska (Choris Peninsula) ; in winter, south to India. 



245. E. pygmaius (Linn.). Spoon-bill Sandpiper. 



