Plate CCCXLIV. Adult in spring and winter.
Bill a third longer than the head, slender, very slightly decurved;
greenish-black; legs long, slender, yellowish-green. In summer, their
upper parts brownish-black, the feathers margined with reddish-white,
the edges of the scapulars with semiform markings of the same; rump
and upper tail-coverts white, transversely barred with dusky; tail
light grey, the feathers white at the base and along the middle;
primary quills and coverts brownish-black, inner tinged with grey, the
shaft of the outer primary white; secondaries brownish-grey, margined
with reddish-white, the inner dusky; a broad whitish line over the
eye; loral space dusky; auriculars pale brownish-red; fore part and
sides of neck greyish-white tinged with red, and longitudinally
streaked with dusky, the rest of the lower parts pale reddish,
transversely barred with dusky, the middle of the breast and the
abdomen without markings. In winter, the upper parts brownish-grey,
the head narrowly streaked with dusky, the scapulars plainly margined
with whitish; the rump and wings as in summer; the band over the eye
lighter, the fore part and sides of neck greyish-white, longitudinally
streaked with grey, the sides similar, and with the lower coverts
barred with grey, the rest of the lower parts white.
_Male_, 7-1/2-8-3/4, 15-1/2-17. _Female_, 8-1/2-10-1/2, 16-1/2-18.
Abundant in Texas in spring. Rare in the Middle Districts. Breeds in
the Fur Countries. Migratory.
Tringa himantopus, Bonap. Syn. p. 316.
Tringa Douglassii, Swains. Douglass' Sandpiper, Swains. &
Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 379.
Tringa himantopus, Slender-shank Sandpiper, Swains. & Rich. F.
Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 380.
Long-legged Sandpiper, Audubon's Stilt Sandpiper, Douglass'
Stilt Sandpiper. Nutt. Man. v. ii. pp. 138, 140, 141.
Long-legged Sandpiper, Tringa himantopus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v.
iv. p. 332.