SCOLOPACINiE. TRINGA. 
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verts ; quills greyish- brown, primaries darker, outer secondaries light 
and tipped with white, inner darker, and glossed with green ; upper 
tail-coverts white, spotted with brown and red ; tail pale brownish- 
grey, glossed with green. In winter, the feathers of the upper parts 
dark brown, edged with darker, and margined with greyish-yellow ; 
lore, cheeks, and sides of the neck and body greyish-yellow, with 
dusky lines ; a broad band from mandible over the eye, the fore part 
of the neck, and the rest of the lower parts white ; quills and tail as in 
winter, but lighter. Young in autumn like the adult in winter. 
Accidental on the Florida coast in winter, rare on those of the mid- 
dle districts. Breeds in high latitudes. Migratory. 
Tringa subarquata, Bonap. Syn. p. 317. 
Cape Curlew or Sandpiper, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 104. 
Curlew Sandpiper, Tringa subarquata, Acn. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 444. 
335. 8. Tringa Himantopus, Bonap. Long-legged Sand- 
piper. 
Plate CCCXLIV. Adult in spring and winter. 
Bill a third longer than the head, slender, very slightly decurved ; 
greenish-black ; legs long, slender, yellowish-green. In summer, their 
upper parts brownish-black, the feathers margined with reddish-white, 
the edges of the scapulars with semiform markings of the same ; rump 
and upper tail-coverts white, transversely barred with dusky; tail 
light grey, the feathers white at the base and along the middle ; pri- 
mary quills and coverts brownish-black, inner tinged with grey, the 
shaft of the outer primary white ; secondaries brownish-grey, margined 
with reddish-white, the inner dusky ; a broad whitish line over the 
eye ; loral space dusky ; auriculars pale brownish-red ; fore part and 
sides of neck greyish- white tinged with red, and longitudinally streak- 
ed with dusky, the rest of the lower parts pale reddish, transversely 
barred with dusky, the middle of the breast and the abdomen without 
markings. In winter, the upper parts brownish-grey, the head nar- 
rowly streaked with dusky, the scapulars plainly margined with whit- 
ish ; the rump and wings as in summer ; the band over the eye lighter, 
the fore part and sides of neck greyish-white, longitudinally streaked 
with grey, the sides similar, and with the lower coverts barred with 
grey, the rest of the lower parts white. 
Male, 7i-8|, I5i-I7. Female, 8i-10h 16J-18. 
Abundant in Texas in spring. Rare in the Middle Districts. Breeds 
in the Fur Countries. Migratory. 
Tringa himantopus, Bonap. Syn. p. 316. 
Tringa Douglassii, Swains. Douglass’ Sandpiper, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer, 
V. ii. p. 379. 
Tringa himantopus, Slender-shank Sandpiper, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. 
V. ii. p. 380. 
