SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 



TIP-UP. TEETER-TAIL. PEET-WEET. 



ACTITIS MACULARIA. 



Char. Above, bright ash, tinged with green of a metallic lustre and 

 marked with black spots : white line over the eyes ; wings dusky ; under 

 parts white, profusely spotted with dull brown. In winter the upper parts 

 are grayish olive, and the under parts white without spots. Length about 

 7>^ inches. 



A^est. Near the shore of river or lake or on the margin of a pasture, 

 under a bush, or amid tussock of grass or weeds, — a slight depression 

 lined with grass, moss, or leaves. 



Eggs. 4; dull buff or creamy, spotted with dark brown ; 1.25 X 0.90. 



The Peet-Weet is one of the most famihar and common of 

 all the New England marsh-birds, arriving along our river 

 shores and low meadows about the beginning of May from 

 their mild or tropical winter-quarters in Mexico, and probably 

 the adjoining islands of the West Indies. By the 20th of 

 April, Wilson observed the arrival of these birds on the shores 

 of the large rivers in the State of Pennsylvania. They migrate 

 and breed from the Middle States in all probabihty to the con- 

 fines of the St. Lawrence or farther, but were not seen by 

 Dr. Richardson or any of the Arctic voyagers in the remote 



