THE SUMMER-SNIPES. 
clay-colour to greenish- white, with chocolate-brown spots and 
blotches, as a rule equally distributed, but sometimes more 
thickly round the larger end, the underlying spots purplish-grey. 
Axis, diam., o'gs-i'os. 
II. THE AMERICAN SUMMER-SNIPE, OR SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 
TRINGOIDES M.ACULARIUS. 
{Plate LXXX/X., Fig 2.) 
Tringa tnacularia, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 249 (1766). 
Aciitis mamlaria, Macgill. Brit. B. iv. p. 356 (1852). 
Totanus macularius, Saunders, ed.Yarrell’s Brit. B. 111. p. 452 
(1883) ; Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 122, pi. 30 (1885) ; 
Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 592 (1889). 
Tringoides macularius, B. O. U. List Brit. B. p. 174 (1883) ; 
Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 468 (1896). 
Adult Male in Breeding Plumage.— Similar to T. hypokucus, but 
much more strongly barred with black on the upper surface, 
and thickly spotted with black underneath ; the size is also 
smaller, and, in the skin, the bill is almost entirely flesh)--yellow ; 
the inner secondaries likewise show less white than in the allied 
species ; bill greenish-olive above, yellow beneath, the point of 
both mandibles black ; feet pale yellowish flesh-colour, claws 
black ; iris hazel. Total length, 6'5 inches; culmen, i ; wing, 
4; tail, 1-85 ; tarsus, 0-85. 
Adult Female in Breeding Plumage. - Similar to the male, and 
quite as heavily spotted below. Total length, 6-5 inches ; wing, 
4'i. 
Young. — Differs from the adult in being more olive-brown, 
and entirely wanting the black spots of the under-surface ; the 
upper surface barred across with reddish-brown and black. 
Adult in Winter Plumage. — More olive-brown than in summer, 
and lacking the bronzy shade ; the under surface of the body 
white, with few or no shaft-lines of brown on the fore-neck and 
chest, and having the sides of the upper-breast ashy-brown. 
Characters. — The spotted breast of the adult readily distin- 
guishes this species from T. hypokucus, but specimens in winter 
