. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. â THE SNIPE FAMILY â TRINGOIDES. 301 Tbe Common Sumlpipcr of Europe (T. hijpoleucns),^ the only otlicr known species of the genus, greatly resembles the Aiuuriciui Spotted Sandpiper (T. maculariiu), but is entirely unsjiotted lioiieath, and otherwise different. Tringoides macularius. THE SPOTTED SANDFIFEB. Trmjit mncidnrin, Linn. S. N. 1,17C0, 249 (bnse, 574. âCass, in Baird's IJ. X. Am. 1H58, 735. â Baikd, Cat. N. Am. 15. 1859, no. 543. â Couks, Key, 1872, 200; Ciictk List, 1873, no.
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. â THE SNIPE FAMILY â TRINGOIDES. 301 Tbe Common Sumlpipcr of Europe (T. hijpoleucns),^ the only otlicr known species of the genus, greatly resembles the Aiuuriciui Spotted Sandpiper (T. maculariiu), but is entirely unsjiotted lioiieath, and otherwise different. Tringoides macularius. THE SPOTTED SANDFIFEB. Trmjit mncidnrin, Linn. S. N. 1,17C0, 249 (bnse, 574. âCass, in Baird's IJ. X. Am. 1H58, 735. â Baikd, Cat. N. Am. 15. 1859, no. 543. â Couks, Key, 1872, 200; Ciictk List, 1873, no. 43« ; 2d I'd. 1882, no. 638 ; Hirds N. W. 1874, 501. âUiuaw. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 557. " Ti-iiKja notala, ; ((1i!Ay). Adilis U'kdi, BoNAi'. (Jhlc tiUAY). IIab. The whole of North and Middle America, and South America as far as Brazil; occa- sional in Europe ; no Greenland record. Breeds throughout temperate North America. II i \. Si'. Char. Small ; bill rather lonj^er than the head, strai^dit, slender ; long grooves in botli mandibles ; wing rather long, pointed ; tail medium, rounded ; legs rather long, Igwer third of thi' tibia naked ; toes long, margined, and llattened underneath, outer connected with the nuddle tne liy a large membrane, inner very .slightly connected to the niitldle toe. Adult: Upper parts i;n'enisli ashy, with a somewhat metallic or bronzed lustre, and with numerous sagittate, lanceolate, and irregular, mostly transverse, spots of black, having the same lustre. Line over the eye and entire luider parts white, with numerous circular and oval spots of lirownish black over the whole lower surface, smaller on the throat, largest on the abdomen. Primaries plain dusky ; tail dark ashy, tlie outer feathers w-ith dusky and white transverse sjiots on their terminal portion ; axillars immaculate white. Young: Above, greenish ashy, the wings with narrow transverse bars i>f black and ochraceous, most numerous on the cover
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