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KEY TO THE BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA, 



Tringa maculata. 

 Tail and upper tail coverts 



Pectoral Sandpiper. 



Bill, nearly straight; bacK, marked with tawny and black; 

 breast with numerous narrow, brown streaks ; none of inner 

 secondaries almost entirely white ; lower rump 

 and upper tail coverts, black ; the feathers 

 more or less tipped with bufl : two middle 

 tail feathers longer than the others. 



Tringa maculata. Pectoral Sandpiper. 

 Grass Bird. 



See No. TJ3. 



Tringa maculata. 



Bill, nearly straight; back, dark; feathers, 

 edged with ashy or buff; breast, grayish, without 

 brown streaks; one or more of inner secondaries 

 almost entirely white; legs and feet, yellow in life, 

 pale brown in dried skin. 



Tringa maritima. Purple Sandpiper. 

 See No. 192. 



Purple Sandpiper. 



Section 5. Toes, four, without web; bill, under 1.10. 



Upper tail coverts, white ; inner webs 

 of primaries, not speckled. 

 Tringa fuscicnlHs. 



Whiterumped Sandpiper. 



See No. 194. 



Tringa fuscicollis. 



Tringa fuscicollis. 



