A Synopsis of the Birds of North AmericaAudubon, John James
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A Synopsis of the Birds of North America
Audubon, John James
Birds -- Classification; Birds -- North America
Bartram Sandpiper, Tringa Bartramia, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. vii.
p. 63.
Totanus Bartramius, Bonap. Syn. p. 262.
Totanus Bartramius, Bartram Tatler, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor.
Amer. v. ii. p. 391.
Bartramian Tatler, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 169.
Bartramian Sandpiper, Totanus Bartramius, Aud. Orn. Biog. v.
iv. p. 24.
329. 2. Tringa Islandica, Linn. Ash-coloured Sandpiper.--Knot.
Grey-back, Red-breasted Sandpiper.
Plate CCCXV. Summer and winter plumage.
In summer, the bill and feet black, upper part of the head and hind
neck light grey, tinged with buff, and longitudinally streaked or
spotted with dusky; fore part of back and scapulars variegated with
brownish-black and yellowish, and each feather with several spots of
the latter, and tipped with whitish; hind part of the back, rump, and
upper tail-coverts, barred with black; wing-coverts ash-grey, edged
with paler; alula and primary coverts brownish-black, tipped with
white; primaries similar, their shafts, and the outer margins of all,
excepting the first three white, the inner webs toward the base light
grey; secondaries and their coverts grey, margined with white; sides
of head, fore part of neck, breast, and abdomen, rich brownish-orange;
lower tail-coverts and feathers of legs white, each of the former with
a central dusky arrow-shaped or elongated spot; axillaries white,
barred with dusky; lower wing-coverts dusky with white margins. In
winter the bill greenish-black, feet yellowish-green; upper parts deep
ash-grey, each feather margined with whitish; feathers of rump
greyish-white; upper tail-coverts white, barred with dusky; quills and
tail as in summer; a band from the bill over the eye to the hind part
of the head, white; loral space, cheeks, and sides of neck pale grey,
streaked with darker; throat and lower parts white; sides, axillar
feathers, and lower wing-coverts, barred or spotted with dusky; lower
tail-coverts as in summer. Young in autumn like the adult in winter,
but each feather on the upper parts with a narrow margin of white,
within which is a dusky line.
_Male_, 10-1/4, 21.
In autumn and spring ranges along the coast from Texas to Labrador.
Breeds in the Fur Countries, to a very high latitude. Common.
Ash-coloured Sandpiper, Tringa cinerea, Wils. Amer. Orn. v.
vii. p. 36. Winter.
Red-breasted Sandpiper, Tringa rufa, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. vii.
p. 57. Summer.
Tringa islandica, Bonap. Syn. p. 350.
Tringa cinerea, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 387.
Knot or Ash-coloured Sandpiper, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 125.
Knot or Ash-coloured Sandpiper, Tringa islandica, Aud. Orn.
Biog. v. iv. p. 130.
330. 3. Tringa pectoralis, Bonap. Pectoral Sandpiper.
Plate CCXCIV. Male and Female.
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