THE PECTORAL SANDPIPERS. 
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HI. THE PECTORAL SANDPIPER. HETEROPYGIA MACUL.ATA. 
Trimra maculata, VieiU. N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 465 
‘(1819); Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. ii, pi. 54 ^ i ^ • 
O. U. List Brit. B. p. 168 (1883) ; Saunders, ed. Ya,rrcll, 
Brit. B. iii. p. 368 (1883) ; Seebohm, Hist. Bnt. B. m. p. 
201 (1885); Saunders, Man. Bnt. B. p. 201 (1889), 
Lilford, Col. Fig. Brit. B. part. xiv. (1890). 
Adult Male in Breeding Plumage — Similar to H. acuminata, but 
never so rufous, with a more blackish head, contrasting with 
the ashy-brown of the hind-neck. It may always be distin- 
guished from H. acuminata by the greater extent of the ashy- 
fulvous colour, which reaches from the upper throat to the 
chest, and is thickly and regularly streaked with dusky-black- 
ish instead of being rufous with black spots ; apical half of bill 
brownish-black, basal half dull greenish-yellow ; legs and feet 
buff. Total length, 8 inches; culmen, I'l ; wing, 4-9; tail, 
I '9 ; tarsus, I -o. 
Adult Female. — Similar to the male. Total length, 8 inches ; 
wing, 4-9. 
Adult in Winter Plumage.— Differs very little from the summer 
Dluma^e, but is browner and with less rufous on the upper sur- 
face the head and neck being of the same colour as the back; 
the character of the throat and fore-neck is exactly the same as 
that of the summer plumage. 
Youn- —Much more rufous than either the breeding or winter 
nlumaee and distinguished by the whitish margins to the 
scaoulous and inner secondaries. The young buds appear to 
have almost as much striping on the throat and breast as the 
old ones - in this respect they differ from the young of H acumi- 
nata where the stripes are confined to the lower throat and 
sides of neck. 
Characters.— The Pectoral Sandpiper may be easily distin- 
miished from our other British species by the generic char- 
acters above given, and by its brown legs, dark upper tail- 
coverts, and by the band across the fore-neck and chest. 
Eaugl in Great Britain— This American species has often 
occurred during autumn and winter, and has been shot also 
