Order CHARADRIIFORMES. Family SCOLOPACID^J. 
No. 122. 
PISOBIA MELANOTAS. 
PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 
(Plate 88.) 
Tringa melanotos Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Neat., Vol. XXXIV., p. 462, Dec., 1819, Paraguay, 
South America. 
Tringa maculata Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XXXIV., p. 467, Dec., 1819 (Antilles or) 
Southern United States. Not Tringa maculata used by Linne in his XII. ed., p. 249, 1766 
(pref., May 24th) as a synonym of macularia. Dresser, Hist. Birds Europe, Vol. VIII., 
p. 11, pi. 546 (pts. 69 and 70), 1878. 
Jourdain, Ibis, 1907, p. 518, pi. xi., fig. 5 ; egg. 
Buturlin, ib. t p. 571, pi. xii., fig. 2, nestling. 
Pelidna pectoralis T. Say, in Long’s Exped. Pocky Mts., Vol. I., p. 171, 1823, Iowa, America. 
Tringa dominicensis C. D. Degland, Orn. Europe, Vol. II., p. 232, 1849 (ex Cinclus dominicensis , 
Brisson Orn., Vol. V., p. 219, 1760). New name for 'pectoralis. 
Tringa acuminata pectoralis Seebohm, Geog. Distr. Char., p. 443, Dec., 1887 (cut of tail). 
Heteropygia maculata Sharpe, Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 562 (pref., July 10th), 1896. 
Calidris maculata Pract. Handb., Vol. II., pt. n., p. 581, 1922 (cut of tails). 
Pisobia maculata Eorbush, Birds Massachusetts, Vol. I., p. 406, pi. 26, 1925 (before Nov. 25th). 
Bent, Life Hist. North American Shore Birds (Limicolae), pt. 1, p. 169, 1927 (pref., Nov. 15th), 
pis. 29 and 30. 
Pisobia pectoralis Oliver, Birds New Zealand, p. 300, Aug., 1930. Bent, Check-list, N. Am. Birds, 
pp. 119 and 385, Oct. 1st, 1931. 
Adult male in breeding plumage. Forehead and crown black, broadly-margined and streaked with 
golden-buff ; neck, back, mantle and scapulars black margined with buff ; lower back, 
rump and upper tail-coverts brownish-black very faintly margined with buff ; middle pair 
of tail-feathers long and pointed, brownish-black, narrowly margined with whitish-buff, 
lateral tail-feathers greyish-brown margined and tipped with white ; primaries blackish- 
brown, the first with the shaft white ; chin and throat white with minute specks of blackish- 
brown ; chest white, washed with buff with broad mesial streaks of blackish-brown ; upper 
breast olive-brown broadly tipped with white ; lower breast, abdomen and sides of the 
body, including the under wing-coverts and axillaries, white ; eyes dark brown, bill greenish- 
black with the base olive-green ; legs and feet yellowish-olive. Total length 230 mm. culmen 
28, wing 142, tail 63 ; tarsus 30. Figured. Collected at Pt. Barrow r , Alaska, June 2nd, 1898. 
Adult female in breeding plumage. Practically the same as the male, and not so much rufous on the 
head. She is also smaller. Wing 131, tail 55, tarsus 27. Collected Point Hope, Alaska. 
Adult female in summer. Similar to the adult female in breeding plumage, described above, but the 
upper parts are duller and less rufous and the upper breast is white. This is specially noticed 
in the neck and back, where the feathers have the centres less black and the edgings less light 
in colour, more tawny. Total length 215 mm. \ culmen 28, wing 130, tail 55, tarsus 27. 
Figured. * Collected at Barracas-al Sud, Buenos Aires, South America, February 11th, 1901. 
* The plate is lettered PECTORALIS. 
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