THE BIEDS OF AUSTKALIA. 
Tringa pectoralis Swinhoe, Ibis 1893, p. 97. 
Heteropygia acuminata Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 566, 1896 ; Rothschild, 
Av. Laysan, p. 255, 1900 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 819, 1901 ; 
Hutton, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. 1900, Vol. XXXIII., p. 255, 1901 ; Hall, Emu, 
Vol. II., p. 66, 1902 ; Berney, ih., p. 213, 1903 ; Carter, ib., Vol. III., p. 177, 1904 ; 
Berney, ih., Vol. IV., p. 47, 1904 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 202, 1905 ; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 86, 1906 ; Berney, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 114, 1907 ; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 28, 1908 ; Dove, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 158, 1908 ; Littler, 
Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 143, 1910 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis 1910, p. 179 ; Legge, Emu, 
Vol. X., p. 51, 1910. 
Heteropygia aurita Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 28, 1908 ; id.. Emu, Vol. IX., p. 4, 
1909 ; id., ih., p. 55. 
Pisohia aurita Auk, Vol. XXV., p. 366, 1908. 
Pisohia maculata acuminata Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 222, 1912. 
Distkibution. Siberia and Alaska (breeding), migrating southward to Australia and 
Tasmania in winter ; accidental in Europe. 
Adult male. Upper-parts dark brown with paler brown bases and ferruginous or grey 
margins to the feathers of the head, hind-neck, back, scapulars, rump, and central 
upper tail-coverts ; Sides of rump and lateral upper tail-coverts white with dark 
shaft-streaks, some of the long coverts have a dark submarginal line ; lesser and 
marginal upper wing-coverts dark brown narrowly edged with ash-grey, the median- 
coverts greyish-brown with darker shaft-lines, the greater coverts more uniform 
brown with pale edges and broadly fringed with white at the tips ; bastard-wing 
and primary-coverts dark brown, the latter edged with white at the tips, more 
conspicuously on the inner ones ; marginal coverts on outer edge of wing dark 
brown fringed with white ; primary-quills dark brown, paler on the inner webs 
and at the tips, the shafts partially white, the secondary-quiUs similar but the inner 
ones paler and more broadly edged with white ; central tail-feathers dark brown 
fringed with ferruginous, the outer feathers pale brown and edged with white ; a 
circle of short white feathers surrounds the eye ; forehead, lores, a line over the 
eye, sides of face, and throat white, with dark pear-shaped spots on the middle of 
the feathers, which become larger and coarser on the ear-coverts, sides of neck, 
lower-throat, and chest which are tinged with ferruginous, some of the feathers 
on the sides of the chest and breast are more or less grey ; breast and sides of body 
paler with dark V-shaped markings to the feathers ; middle of abdomen white ; 
under tail-coverts white with dark lanceolate markings to the feathers ; under 
wing-coverts dark brown broadly fringed with white, the greater series greyish- 
brown with white borders ; under side of quills also greyish-brown, paler on the 
inner webs at the basal portion, and with conspicuous white shafts ; bill brown, 
base of lower mandible pale brown ; iris brown ; feet and legs olive. Total 
length 230 mm. ; culmen 25, wing 125-130, tail 55, tarsus 30. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Immature. Head, upper-back, and scapulars black, with rufous or white edgings to 
the feathers ; hind-neck dark brown, the feathers margined with buffy-grey ; 
lesser, median, marginal, and greater wing-coverts dark brown, edged with white 
at the tips, inclining to grey on the inner coverts ; bastard-wing and primary- 
coverts dark brown, some of the latter narrowly tipped with white ; primary- 
and secondary-quills also dark brown, the latter fringed with white at the tips ; 
lower-back, rump, and upper tail-coverts dull black, the feathers of the latter 
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