FAM. XXXIX. SNIPES, SANDPIPERS, ETC. 239 



size, bi\t in summer the long-billed has the breast and belly 

 more uniformly rufous, and the sides more heavily barred with 

 black. This is the dowitcher of the interior of the United 

 States and is rare on the Atlantic coast, though it can be found 

 there quite regularly in the late autumn. (Western Dowitcher ; 

 Red-bellied Snipe.) 



Length, 12 ; wing, 5J-G ; tarsus, If ; culmen, 2j-.Si. Western North 

 America ; breeding in the Arctic regions, migrating south through the 

 western United States (including the Mississippi Valley), and wintering 

 in Mexico and possibly ISoutli America. 



5. Stilt Sandpiper (233. Micropdlama himdntopus). — A rare, 

 very long-legged, long-billed, very much mottled sand-piper, 

 with the center of 

 each of the feathers 

 blackish (in general) 

 and the edges brown- 

 ish-gray. The tail, 

 throat, and line over 

 the eye are much 

 lighter. The colors 

 are much grayer in 

 winter, the under 

 parts being white. It 

 is slow moving as com- 

 pared with other sand- 

 pipers, and is more 

 apt to squat than fly 

 when disturbed. 



Length, 7|-9^ ; wing, 

 b\; tail, 2i ; tarsus, 1| ; culmen, 

 breeding far north, and wintering 

 America. 



Stilt Sandpiper 



1 1 _1 3 



from 



Eastern 

 the West 



Xorth 

 Indies 



America ; 

 to South 



6. Knot (234. Trutr/a caniitus). — A very large and, as usually 

 seen in the United States, mottled, gray-backed, white-bellied, 

 plover-like sandpiper, with more or less of a red, robin-like 

 breast. The back and wings are more beautifully marked in 



