394 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



the lateral tail feathers and their coverts regularly barred with black and white, the white 

 bars being broadest on the former : rump feathers merely edged with white. Wings 

 unspotted, except on the margins of the tertiaries ; lesser quills and their coverts edged with 

 white at the tips ; primaries, their coverts, and anterior border of the wing, blackish-brown ; 

 shaft of the first quill a little paler. The short eye stripes and under plumage white ; sides of 

 the head, front of the neck, and breast, streaked with clove-brown ; inside of the wings 

 barred with blackish-brown and white. Bill brown. Legs blackish-green. 



Form typical. Bill moderate ; nasal grooves extending two-thirds of its length. Tail 

 somewhat rounded laterally, with a slight approach to double emargination ; the middle pair 

 of feathers rather the longest. Web between the inner and middle toes merely rudimentary. 



The sexes are alike in plumage. The more southern specimens are generally an inch 

 longer, and have the lesser quills and many of the wing coverts spotted on the margins like 

 the dorsal plumage, and white spots on the edges of the middle tail feathers*. 



Dimensions 

 Of the female. 



Inch. Lin. Inch. Lin. Inch. Lin. 



Length, total . . .80 Length of bill to rictus . 1 3^ Length of middle nail . 2 



,, of tail . .23 ,, of tarsus ..13 ,, of hind toe . 3 



,, of wing . .54 ,, of naked thigh . 7 ,, of hind nail . .0 2 



„ of bill above .12 ,, of middle toe , 1 0£ ,, of web . . 2f 



— R. 



* Temminck remarks, " Tringa solitaria de Wilson differe de notre Tringa ylareola, seulement par les deux pennes 

 du milieu de la queue, qui dans solitaria out la couleur brune du dos, et sont range'es par bandes alternes brunes et 

 blanches dans G/areola." — Man., p. 655. 



Totanus macularius. (Temm.) Spotted Tatler. 



Spotted Tringa {Tringa maculata). Edw., pi. 277 ; lower figure. 



Spotted Sandpiper. Pexn. Arct. ZooL, ii., p. 473, No. 385. Wils., vii., p. 00, pi. 59, f. 1. 



Totanus macularius. Temm., ii., p. 050. Bonap. Syn., No. 264. 



Chschiskawsees. Cree Indians. 



This species, which is very common in the United States, is stated, by Pennant and Latham, on the authority of 

 Sir. Hutchins, to be an inhabitant of Hudson's Bay. We did not meet with it either in the interior or on the sea- 

 roast. — R. 



