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to this, with a few irregular narrow dusky bars. Inner web of outer quill marked 

 with broad bars of white, on other quills broken up into a confused mottling ; axil- 

 lars white regularly barred with clear slate-color ; belly and lower tail-coverts plain 

 dull whitish or very pale buff (buff and ochraceous tints much deeper in winter). 

 Young : Similar to adult, but buffy tints deeper, dusky streaks on fore-neck and chest 

 much less distinct, and the back plain dusky, with distinct buff margins to the 

 feathers. Downy young : Above coarsely and irregularly mottled with blackish on 

 a grayish white ground tinged with light rusty ; lower parts buffy white, with 

 several blackish spots on flanks, one beneath eye, a smaller one on lores, and a 

 larger, nearly perpendicular one behind ears. Length 11.00-12.75, wing 6.50-7.00, 

 culmen 1.10-1.15, tarsus 1.90-2.05, middle toe .90-1.05. Eggs 1.79 X 1-30, ovate or 

 short-ovate, creamy buff or dull buffy white, speckled and spotted, chiefly round 

 larger end, with dark brown and purplish gray. Sab. Eastern and central North 

 America in general, west to edge of the Great Basin, north to the Yukon Valley and 

 Nova Scotia; south, in winter, to Brazil and Peru; occasional in Europe, and 

 accidental in Australia 261. B. longicauda (Bechst.). Bartramian Sandpiper. 



Genus TRYNGITES Cabanis. (Page 148, pi. LIL, fig. 2.) 



Species. 



Upper parts dull grayish buff or brownish, varied with blackish ; lower parts 

 buff, streaked or speckled on chest with dusky; axillars white; under primary 

 coverts and inner webs of quills beautifully mottled or speckled with dusky on a 

 whitish ground. Adult : Feathers of back, etc., blackish centrally, and without 

 whitish borders. Young : Feathers of back, etc., distinctly bordered with whitish, 

 the black and brown less sharply contrasted ; mottling on inner webs of quills, and 

 under primary coverts, much more minute and delicate than in adult. Length 

 7.00-8.90, wing 5.10-5.50, culmen .75-.80, tarsus 1.15-1.30, middle toe .75-85. Eggs 

 1.53 X 1-04, buffy grayish white, varying to pale olive-buff, boldly spotted, longitu- 

 dinally (and somewhat spirally) with dark Vandyke- or madder-brown and purplish 

 gray. Sab. North America in general, especially the interior, breeding far north- 

 ward ; south, in winter, to Uruguay and Peru ; occasional in Europe. 



262. T. subruficollis (Vieill.). Buff-breasted Sandpiper. 



Genus ACTITIS Boie. (Page 148, pi. LIL, fig. 1.) 



Species. 



Common Characters. — Above plain grayish brown, with a faint greenish or 

 bronzy lustre, in summer adults or young slightly relieved by more or less of dusky 

 streaking or barring, or both ; outer tail-feathers barred with white, the rest (ex- 

 cept middle pair) tipped with the same ; secondaries broadly tipped with white, 

 and with more than their basal half (abruptly) white ; inner webs of second to 

 tenth quills (inclusive) with a longitudinal white patch, increasing in depth toward 

 the tenth, on which it touches the shaft ; superciliary stripe (sometimes not very 

 distinct) and lower parts chiefly pure white. 



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