. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. li i 'f « 242 GRALLATOUES — LlMICOLvE. /3. Americana. THE AMERICAN RED-BACKED SANDPIPER. Tringa alpina, WiLs. Am. Oni. VII. 181;!, 'i:,, pi. .')0, fij,'. 2 (ik'c Lisn.) — Sw. & H'^H. F. B. A. II. 1831, 383. —NriT. Miiii. II. 1834, 100. — Aid. Orn. liiog. III. 1835, 680, i>l. 2U0 ; Syii(.|.. 1839, 234 ; B. Am. V. 1842, -Jtiti. 2'riinja a/jiina, viir. (imtrioiiia, (.'ass. in liiiiril's 15. N. Am. 18'i8, 711». — Haikd, Cut. N. Am. IS. 1859, 110. 53(1. — l'., Koy, 1^72, : I
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. li i 'f « 242 GRALLATOUES — LlMICOLvE. /3. Americana. THE AMERICAN RED-BACKED SANDPIPER. Tringa alpina, WiLs. Am. Oni. VII. 181;!, 'i:,, pi. .')0, fij,'. 2 (ik'c Lisn.) — Sw. & H'^H. F. B. A. II. 1831, 383. —NriT. Miiii. II. 1834, 100. — Aid. Orn. liiog. III. 1835, 680, i>l. 2U0 ; Syii(.|.. 1839, 234 ; B. Am. V. 1842, -Jtiti. 2'riinja a/jiina, viir. (imtrioiiia, (.'ass. in liiiiril's 15. N. Am. 18'i8, 711». — Haikd, Cut. N. Am. IS. 1859, 110. 53(1. — l'., Koy, 1^72, : I'lick List, 187:!, 424 ; N. W. 1874, 489. Tringa vttriithilis, Saiiink, .Suiijil. I'lirry's First Voy. p. cc. " Tringa cincliis," \Vii,.s. Am. din. VII. 1813, 39, \>\. 57, li>,'. 3 (iicc Linn.). J'r/iilmi jmeifca, (.'ofKs, I'l. Ac Nut. Sii. I'liilail. ISOl, 189 (in text). Pdidna ulpimi nmn-icuna, liiiuav. I'lo.'. V. .S. Nat. Mhs. 1881, 201); Xom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 639rt.—Cocks, Clurk List, 2il id. 1882, no. t)24. IIab. Of true alpina, the Pula'urctic Itefjioii, lucideiitiil in North America (Hudson's Bay : Blaklston, " lliis," 18(53, 132). Of amcriama, North America in general, breeding fur northwaiil, and straggling to eastern coast of Asia. Sp. Char. {P. americana). Adult in sumvur: Crown, back, scapulars, runip, and upper tail- coverts, light rufou.'*, the crown streaked, other parts spotted, with Itlack ; wing-coverts brownisli gray, the greater broadly tipi)ed witli white. Head (excejit crown), neck, jugulum, and breast, grayish white, streaked with dusky ; abdomui black ; sides, Hanks, anal region, crissum, and linin,'. of the wing, pure white, the sides, flanks, and crissum sparsely stn-aked. Aibdt and young in %cin- ler: Above, entirely plain ash-gray, sometimes with very imlistinct dusky ; indistinct superciliary stripe and lower parts white, the neck and jugulum indistinctly streaked with grayish, the s
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