AT4 BIRDS—SCOLOPACIDA. 
at the end, the point acute; grooves long, narrow, deep; feathers on side of lower 
mandible evidently reaching further than those on upper. Upper parts brownish-black 
(deepest on the rump and middle upper tail-coverts, and lightest on the neck behind), 
each feather bordered and tipped with pale brownish-yellow, the tipping of the scapulars 
broadest and nearly white, their marginings bread and brightest in tint, making several 
deep scallops toward the shafts of the feathers. Only the outer series black, the others 
plain gray, with paler margins. Jugulum tinged with light, dull yellowish-brown, 
spotted and streaked with ill-defined blackish markings, as are also the sides under the 
wings. Throat and the other under parts white, unmarked. Feet black, like the bill. 
Length, 7.25; extent, 15.25; wing, 4.90; bill, 85; tarsus, and middle toe and claw, the 
same. ‘The female is entirely similar, but slightly larger. The young have the upper 
parts wholly light brownish-ash, darker on the rump, and all the feathers with a dark 
field, and pale or whitish edging; waves of brownish-black on the scapulars. Jugulum 
and breast suffused with dull, light reddish-brown; the spotting small, sparse, and very 
indistinct. 
T. fuscicollis is a little larger, on an average; the bill noticeably stouter, flesh-celored at 
base below; the feathers on the sides of the lower mandible do not extend noticeably 
beyond those on the upper; the scapular edging is bright chestnut; the jugulum is 
white, or barely perceptibly ashy with numerous narrow, distinct streaks; and the 
upper tail-coverts are white. JT. bairdii is exactly intermediate in size between T. macw- 
lata and T. minutilla, and is almost identical with the latter in pattern of coloration, but 
the markings upon the breast are not thick and heavy, and the edging of the scapulars 
not bright chestnut. The species scarcely requires comparison with maculata ; the latter 
is much larger; it differs in the colors and proportions of the bill; the pattern (plain, 
unscalloped) of coloration of the scapular edgings, the abrupt transition from the color 
of the crown to that of the hind neck; the heavy pectoral markings, ete. T. bairdii, 
like all its allies, is subject to a partially melanotic condition of plumage.” (Coues.) 
Habitat, North America, chiefly in the interior. Rare on the Atlantic coast. Mexico. 
Central and South America. Africa (Layard). 
Rare spring and fall migrant in March, September, and October. 
None of our Shore-birds seem to have had as much difficulty in 
placing themselves in the proper light before ornithologists as this. 
Tt was unknown until within the last thirty years, and when discov- 
ered, and for sometime after, confounded with other species. Dr. Coues 
first gave it rank and name in 1861. 
Iam quite certain that I met with this species in March, 1857, and 
took one specimen, firing, at long range, into the largest flock of Sand- 
pipers I ever beheld, as they rose from the borders of a pond in a corn- 
field. Since which time I have taken a single specimen in September, 
on the gravelly shores of the Scioto river in the immediate vicinity of 
this city. This bird wasin the company of Semipalmated Plovers and 
Least Sandpipers. Mr. Oliver Davie has a specimen taken in the same 
locality in the following October. Mr. Winslow has a specimen taken 
near Cleveland, and Messrs. Dury and Freeman note one specimen, 
October, 27, 1878, at Cincinnati. 
