BIRDS-SCOLOPACIDAE—TRINGOIDES MACULAR1US. 
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toes moderate. Entire upper parts dark lead colored, uniform, and without white marks ; under parts white, with more or less 
of dark cinereous or plumbeous on the sides and neck ; under wing coverts white, spotted and barred with dark plumbeous. 
Quills dark brown ; shaft of the first primary white on its upper surface; shafts of other primaries reddish brown on the upper 
surface, and white on their under surfaces. Tail dark lead colored, uniform with upper parts of body. Bill dark ; feet greenish. 
Younger. Under parts white, transversely barred with dark ashy brown, especially on the sides and flanks. Throat and middle of 
abdomen white. 
Total length about 10£ inches ; wing, 6^; tail, 3^ ; bill, 14 ; tarsus, inches. 
Ilab .—Washington Territory, (Dr. J. G. Cooper); islands in the Pacific; South America ; northeastern Asia ; Japan ? 
Easily distinguished from any other North American species by the uniform colors of its 
plumage. This species ranges over an immense extent of locality, embracing nearly all the 
islands of the Pacific ocean and its coasts from Russian America to Australia. 
Several specimens of this interesting species are in the present collection, all of which were 
obtained in Washington Territory by Dr. J. G. Cooper. It has quite a profusion of names, a 
part of which are given above. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. No. 
Locality. 
Whence obtained. 
4472 
6697 
Shoalwater Bay, W. T_. 
Dr. Cooper___ 
TRINGOIDES, Bonap. 
Tringoides, Bonap. Saggio di una diet. etc. 1831. Type Tringa hypoleucus, Linn. (Gray.) 
Aciitis, Boie, Isis, 1822,560. Not of Uliger, Prodromus, 1811. 
Ch. —Upper mandible grooved to the terminal fourth; the bill tapering and rather acute. Cleft of mouth only moderate ; the 
culmen about five-sixths the commissure. Feathers extending rather further on side of lower jaw than upper, the former 
reaching as far as the beginning of the nostrils; those of the chin to about their middle Bill shorter than the head, straight, 
equal to the tarsus, which is of the length of middle toe and claw. Bare part of tibia half the tarsus. Outer toe webbed to first 
joint; inner cleft about to the base. Tail much rounded ; more than half the wing. 
TRINGOIDES MACULARIUS, (Linn.) Gray. 
Spotted Sandpiper. 
Tringa maeularia , Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 249.— Wils. Am. Orn. VII, 1813, 60; pi. lix. 
Totanus macularius, Temminck, Man. II, 1820, 656.— Bon Obs. Wils. 1825, No. 211— Nutt. Man II, 1834, 162.— 
Aud. Orn. Biog. IV, 1838,81; pi. 310.— Ib. Syn. 242 — Ib. Birds Amer. V, 1842, 303; pi 342. 
Adites macularius, Bon. List, 1838. 
Tringoides macularius, Gray, genera. 
Figures. — Wilson, Am. Orn. VII, pi. 59, fig. 1.— Aud. B. of Am. pi. 310, oct. ed. V, pi. 342.— Gould, B. of Europe, IV, 
pi. 317.— Naumann, B. of Germ. pi. 195. 
Sp. Ch. —Small; bill rather longer than the head, straight, slender; long grooves in both mandibles; wing rather long, 
pointed; tail medium, rounded; legs rather long; lower third of the tibia naked; toes long, margined, and flattened under¬ 
neath ; outer connected with the middle toe by a large membrane; inner very slightly connected to the middle toe. Upper 
parts brownish olive green, with a somewhat metallic or bronzed lustre, and with numerous longitudinal lines, and sagittate, 
lanceolate, and irregular spots of biownish black, having the same lustre. Line over the eye and entire under parts white, 
with numerous circular and oval spots of brownish black, smaller on the throat, largest on the abdomen. Quills brown, with 
