OF NORTH AMERICA. TA 
with dark. Length a trifle over 6 inches, 
extent about 12 inches; eyes dark brown; 
bill and legs greenish-black. 
This bird much resembles the other peep 
(No. 79), and probably but few sportsmen 
recognize a difference between them, and for 
their purposes no distinction is necessary, as 
their habits are similar. 
Many a sportsman, when the larger birds 
are not flying, makes out his day’s sport with 
these little birds, and when they are wild it 
will require some patience and craft to secure 
more than a dozen or so unless they are very 
plentitul. 
83. WESTERN SANDPIPER. 
Ereunetes occidentalis. 
This is another case of hair splitting on the 
part of our ornithologists, and I do not think 
that over one in fifty of my readers could dis- 
tinguish this bird from the last if they lay 
side by side, so for all readers west of the 
Rockies, for No. 82 read No. 83.. 
84. SANDERLING. GRAY-BACK. 
BULL PEEP. 
Calidris arenaria. 
In the summer plumage the back is mottled 
with shell-uke markings of black, gray and 
reddish, formed by each feather having a 
black centre and a reddish or gray tip. This 
