OF NORTH AMERICA. 81 
94. BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 
Tryngites subruficollis. 
Prevailing color mottled dark-brown with 
a greenish shade, each feather above being 
tipped with yellowish. The distinguishing 
feature, however, is the buff-colored breast and 
belly, unmarked save for a few spots, where 
it commences to shade into the darker color 
of the back ; this color is deeper in the spring, 
and in adult birds. Length 8 inches. Ex- 
tent 16 inches. Eyes brown. Bill dark 
brown. Legs yellowish-green. 
This bird is rare along the Eastern coast, 
and I think common nowhere. It seems to 
fly in company with No. 76, and, being about 
the same size and of similar habit, I have 
no doubt is often taken for that bird in the 
fall migrations. 
95. SPOTTED SANDPIPER. TEETER. 
FELP-UP; “OX—EY E. 
Actitis macularia. 
Color olive-gray, finely mottled with black. 
Under side white, spotted with black, and 
there is a white mark over the eye. Length 
74 inches. Extent 13 inches. Eyes dark 
brown. Bill flesh-color, tipped with black. 
Feet pinkish-white. 
I hardly know whether to class this bird 
as a game bird, but it is hard to say “ where 
