720 U. S. P. E. K. EXP. AND SURVEYS —ZOOLOGY— GENERAL EEFOET. 
List of specimens. 
Catal 
No. 
Sex. 

3 
3 
S 
Q 
Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
Oct. 13,1845 
8.32 
8.32 
9.00 
15.00 
15.16 
15.80 
4.75 
4.80 
5.00 
Cape May, N.J 
May —,1812 
9 
May 3,1851 
Gov. Stevens 
68 
8.50 
15.25 
Iris brown ; bill and 
Mar. 2,1854 
May 3,1851 
April —,1853 
Feb. 6,1856 
Nov. 311,1856 
do 
54 
do 
do 
9.00 
8.50 
16.00 
15.25 
Fort Steilacoom, W. T. 
Dr. Suckley 
8.50 
15.00 
4.84 
A. Campbell 
do 
8.25 
13.50 
4.50 
Actodromas, Kaup. 1 
TRINGA MACULATA, Vie ill. 
Jack Snipe. 
Tringa metadata, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. XXXIV, 1819, 465. 
Tringa pecloralis, Say, Long's Exped. I, 1823, 171. — Bun. Am. Orn. IV, 1832, 43; pi. xxiii. — Nutt. Man. II, 111. — 
Aud. Om.Biog. Ill, 1835, 601 : V, 582; pi. 291.— Ib. Syn 233.— Ib. Birds Amer. V, 1842, 259; pi. 329, 
Tringa campestris, Licht. Verz. 1823, 74, (nut of Vieillot, 1819.) 
Figures.— Bonap. Am. Orn. IV, pi. 23, fig. 2 —Aud B. of Am. pi. 294; oct. ed. V, pi. 329.— Gould B. of Eur. IV, pi. 327. 
Sp. Ch. — Bill rather lunger than the head, compressed, slightly depressed aud expanded at the tip; nasal groove lung; wings 
long; legs rather long , tibia with nearly its lower half naked; toes free at base, flacrened underneath and slightly margined; 
tail rather short; middle feathers pointed. Entire upper parts brownish black; all the feathers edyed and tipped with ashy and 
brownish red ; rump aud upper tail coverts black, some of the outer feathers of the latter edged with white. Line from the bill 
over the eye ashy white; throat, abdomen, under wing coverts, axillary feathers, and under tail coverts, white. Breast and neck 
before ashy white; all the feathers darker at base, and with partially concealed lanceolate or pointed spots of browuish black. 
Quills brownish black; shaft of first primary white, of others brown; secondaries tipped and edged with white; tertiaries edged 
with dull reddish yellow. Bill and feet dark greenish black. Total length about 9 inches; wing, bi ; tail, 2£; bill to gape, J£; 
tarsus, 1 inch. 
Bab. — The entire coasts of North America; South America; Europe. 
Of rather frequent occurrence on the coast of the Atlantic, and rearing its young in the 
northern States of the Union. In the present collection also are specimens from western North 
America, and in the Museum of the Philadelphia Academy we find numerous examples from 
various parts of South America. This bird is easily recognized by its spotted breast and the 
light yellow of the basal portion of the bill. We have no doubt that the description and name 
given by Vieillot, as above, apply to this species. 
This species has been ascertained to breed abundantly in Wisconsin by Professor T. Kiimlein, 
an energetic cultivator of zoological science, now resident in that State. In the Museum of the 
Philadelphia Academy, specimens from various countries of South America are in the winter 
1 Actocbomaf, Kaup, Sk. Eut. Europ. Thierw. 1829. Type Tringa minuta, Leislek 
