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Hab. The whole of North and the greater part of South Amerioa, ranging south In 

 winter to southern Brazil and -Chili; West Indies in general; Bermudas; freauent in 

 Europe ; North China? (Swinh. Ibis, 1863, 97.) 



Sp. Chab. Adult in summer: Above.light olay-color, the crown, haok, scapulars, and 

 tertlals washed with light rufous or rusty orchraoeous ; the feathers black oentt-ally, pro- 

 ducing conspicuous streaks, which widen into spots on the scapulars and back; rump and 

 middle upper tail-coverts brownish black; lateral upper tail-ooverts white, with dusky 

 shaft- streaks. Middle tail-feathers dusky, edged with lighter; other rectrioes pale brown- 

 ish gray, bordered with white. Wing-coverts light grayish brown, with paler borders and 

 darker centres ; a light superciliary stripe, and a darker loral one. Cheeks, sides of the 

 neck, whole jugulum, and breast, pale day-color or light grayish buff, streaked with dusky ; 

 sides sparsely streaked. Bemaining lower parts immaculate white. "Basal half of bill 

 dull greenish yellow." {Nelson, MS.) Adult in winter: Similar to summer plumage, but 

 the rusty tint above almost or wholly absent, and the black markings less sharply defined. 

 Young, first plumage: Quite similar to the summer adult, but the scapulars and outer 

 interscapulars conspicuously tipped externally with white, the breast, etc., more distinctly 

 buff, and rather more narrowly streaked. 



Total length, about 9.00 inches; wing, aboutS.OO; culmen, l.U); tarsus, 1.00-1.10; middle 

 toe, .90. » 



This well-known Sandpiper is one of the most abiindant spe- 

 cies of its family during its migrations. In the northeastern 

 portion of the State, it is, says Mr. Nelson, a very abundant 

 migrant, "sometimes uniting into large flocks containing sev- 

 eral hundred, and frequenting wet prairies or marshes. At other 

 times it can only be found singly, scattered over the same ter- 

 ritory. March 25th to May 10th, and the middle of Septem- 

 ber to the first of November. A few remain through the sum- 

 mer, but whether they breed or not I have been unable to decide." 



Tringa fuscicoUis Vieill. 



BONAFABXE'S SANSFIFEB. 

 Popular synonym. White-tail Stile (Plymouth Bay, Mass.). 



Tringa fusciolHs VlErLL. Nouv. Diet, xxxiv, 1819, 461.— Coues, B. N. W. 1874, 487.-I-A. O. 



U. Check List, 1886, No, 240.— Kedgw. Man. N. Am. B. 1887, 157. 

 Aetodromas fusoicollis Bmdw. Nom. N. Am. B. 1882, No. 536.— B. B. & B. Water B. N. 



Am. i, 1884, 227. 

 Tringa schinzii BoNAP. Synop. 1828, 249; Am. Orn. iv, 1833, 69, pi. 24, flg. 2.— NuTT. Man. 



ii, 1834, 109.- Sw. & EiOH. P. B.-A. ii, 1831, 384.— AUD. Orn. Biog. iii, 1833, 529, pi. 278; 



Synop. 1839, 236; B. Am. v, 1842, 275, pi. 335. 

 Tringa honapartei Sohleg. Eev. Orlt. Ois. Eur. 1844, 89.— Cass, in Baird's B. N. Am. 



1858, 722 (part).— Baibd, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, No. 633.— ConES, Key, 1872, 255; Check 



List, 1874, No. 421. , 



Aetodromas bonapartei CouBS, Check List, 2d ed. 1882, No. 617. 



Hab. Eastern Province of North Amerioa, breeding far northward; in winter, the 

 whole of Middle America, South Amerioa, and the West Indies; Falkland Islands; occa- 

 sional in Europe. 



V Sp. Chab. Adultin summer: Above, light brownish grajf, much tinged, particularly 

 on the crown, back, and inner scapulars, with light rusty buff or oehrac6ous,all the feathers 

 black centrally, these markings largest and somewhat V-shaped, or sagittate, on the 



