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.
336. 9. Tringa Schinzii, Brehm. Schinz's Sandpiper.
Plate CCLXXVIII. Male and Female.
Bill about the length of the head, straight, and with the feet greenish-dusky; general colour of upper parts brownish-black, each feather edged with yellowish-grey, the scapulars with light red; wing-coverts greyish-brown, the shaft black; primary and secondary coverts tipped with white; quills brownish-grey, darker toward the tips, inner primaries and outer secondaries more or less edged and tipped with white; tail-feathers white, with a dusky spot, excepting the central two, which are blackish, with a few greyish-white markings; tail-feathers light grey, the two middle brownish-black towards the end; sides of the head, fore neck, anterior part of breast and sides greyish-white, with small lanceolate central brownish-black spots; the rest of the lower parts white.
Male, 71/2, 143/4.
From Labrador to St Augustine in Florida, and Kentucky, during autumn. Missouri. Saskatchewan Plains. Not very rare. Migratory. Breeds in high northern latitudes.
Tringa Schinzii, Bonap. Syn. p. 249.
Tringa Schinzii, Schinz's Sandpiper, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 384.
Schinz's Sandpiper, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 109.
Schinz's Sandpiper, Tringa Schinzii, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 529.
337. 10. Tringa semipalmata, Wils. Semipalmated Sandpiper.
Plate CCCCV. Adult.
Bill as long as the head, greenish-dusky; feet dull yellowish-green; upper part of head, cheeks, hind part and sides of neck, ash-grey, streaked with dusky; on the rest of the upper parts the feathers dusky-brown, margined with pale grey, those on the rump and the upper tail-coverts blackish-brown; secondary coverts tipped with white; alula and primary coverts brownish-black, the latter tipped with white; primary quills greyish-black, with white shafts; secondary quills more grey; primaries externally edged with white towards the base, as are the outer secondaries in a fainter degree, as well as terminally, some of them also having the greater part of the inner web greyish-white; two middle tail-feathers greyish-black on the inner web, their outer web and all the other feathers ash-grey; anterior part of forehead, and a band over the eye greyish-white; lower parts white.