Tail-feathers of Baird’s Sandpiper.
(Seebohm’s ‘Plovers,’ p. 444.)
Hab. Arctic America, migrating south to Patagonia in winter.
This is likewise an Arctic-American species which visits South America in winter. I have met with it in small flocks near Buenos Ayres in April and May; and it has also been procured in Chili.
[401.] TRINGA FUSCICOLLIS, Vieill.
(BONAPARTE’S SANDPIPER.)
Tringa fuscicollis, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 145; Durnford, Ibis, 1878, p. 68 (Buenos Ayres) et p. 404 (Centr. Patagonia); White, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 42 (Buenos Ayres); Barrows, Auk, 1884, p. 314 (Entrerios); Saunders, Yarrell’s Birds, iii. p. 373. Tringa bonapartii, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 144, et 1873, p. 455 (Buenos Ayres); Seebohm, Plovers, p. 445. Actodromas fuscicollis, Baird, Brew., et Ridgw. Water-B. N. A. i. p. 227.
Description.—Above brownish grey, varied and spotted with black; superciliaries white; rump grey, upper tail-coverts white: beneath white; breast and flanks spotted and streaked with blackish: whole length 7·0 inches, wing 4·8, tail 2·1. Female similar.
Hab. Arctic America, migrating south to Patagonia in winter.
Bonaparte’s Sandpiper is a third of the same category of Arctic Tringæ that range far south after the breeding-season. Durnford found it common “in flocks” near Buenos Ayres, and again in the valley of the Sengel river in Central Patagonia in winter. White and Hudson also obtained specimens near Buenos Ayres, and Barrows in Entrerios near Concepcion.