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SCOLOPACINtE. tringa. 
In summer,, the bill and feet black, upper part of the head and hind 
neck light grey, tinged with buff, and longitudinally streaked or 
spotted with dusky ; fore part of back and scapulars variegated with 
brownish-black and yellowish, and each feather with several spots of 
the latter, and tipped with whitish ; hind part of the back, rump, and 
upper tail-coverts, barred with black ; wing-coverts ash*-grey, edged 
with paler ; alula and primary coverts brownish-black, tipped with 
white ; primaries similar, their shafts, and the outer margins of all, 
excepting the first three white, the inner webs toward the base light 
grey ; secondaries and their coverts grey, margined with white ; sides 
of head, fore part of neck, breast, and abdomen, rich brownish-orange ; 
lower tail-coverts and feathers of legs white, each of the former with a 
central dusky arrow-shaped or elongated spot ; axillaries white, barred 
with dusky ; lower wing-coverts dusky with white margins. In winter 
the bill greenish-black, feet yellowish-green ; upper parts deep ash- 
grey, each feather margined with whitish ; feathers of rump greyish- 
white ; upper tail-coverts white, barred with dusky ; quills and tail 
as in summer ; a band from the bill over the eye to the hind part of 
the head, white ; loral space, cheeks, and sides of neck pale grey, 
streaked with darker; throat and lower parts white ; sides, axillar 
feathers, and lower wing-coverts, barred or spotted with dusky ; lower 
tail-coverts as in summer. Young in autumn like the adult in winter, 
but each feather on the upper parts with a narrow margin of white, 
within which is a dusky line. 
Makj 101 , 21 . 
In autumn and spring ranges along the coast from Texas to Labra- 
dor. Breeds in the Fur Countries, to a very high latitude. Common. 
Ash-coloured Sandpiper, Tringa cinerea, Wits. Amer. Orn. v. vii. p. 36. Winter. 
Red-breasted Sandpiper, Tringa rufa, Wins. Amer. Orn. v. vii. p. 57. Summer. 
Tringa islandica, Bonap. Syn. p. 350. 
Tx’inga cinerea, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 387. 
Knot or Ash-coloured Sandpiper, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 125. 
Knot or Ash-coloured Sandpiper, Tringa islandica, Ann. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 130. 
330. 3. Tringa pectoralis, Bonap. Pectoral Sandpiper. 
Plate CCXCIV. Male and Female. 
Bill dull olive-green, dusky towards the point ; feet dull yellowish- 
green ; upper part of head reddish-brown, the central part of each 
feather brownish-black ; a faint whitish line from the bill to a little 
beyond the eye ; lores dusky ; sides of head and anterior and lateral 
parts of neck, with a portion of the breast, light -brownish-grey, with 
longitudinal dark brown lines ; chin, breast, and abdomen white ; 
feathers of the upper part brownish-black, edged with reddish-brown, 
those on the wings lighter ; primary quills dusky, outer secondaries 
tinged with grey, and narrowly tipped with white, inner like the back ; 
