SCOL OP A CIDJE : SANDPIPERS. 



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dark ash, or cinereous, each feather tipped with ashy or pure white, and having a subterminal 

 edging of dusky-black, producing a conspicuous set of bhiek and white semicircles, very char- 

 acteristic of the species in this plumage. Indistinct line over eye, and whole under parts white, 

 more or less tinged with light reddish ; throat, breast, and sides with rather sparse, irregularly 

 disposed lines and sp(4s of dusky, which become transverse waved bars on the latter. Length 

 I0..50; extent 20.50; 

 wing 0.50; tail 2.70; 

 bill al)out 1 .40 ; tarsus 

 1.20; middle toe 1.00; 

 tibia bare 0.60. A 

 large handsome spe- 

 cies, inhabiting most 

 of the world in the 

 course of its extensive 

 migrations ; in Amer- 

 ica, chiefly along the 

 Atlantic coast, but also 

 in the interior, about 

 large lakes and rivers; 

 winters fnmi Florida 

 to Soutli America. 

 Breeds only in high 

 latitudes, and tlius far 

 only known to do so 



on our Arctic coast, where it was first found by Parry's E.xpedition on the Xurth Georgian or 

 Parry Islands in abundance, in summer; soon afterward by Captain Lyons on Melville Penin- 

 sula (Auk, July, 1885, p. 312, Newton, Diet. p. 499); by Col. H. W. Feilden in 1876 on the 

 northern coast of Grinuell Land and the shores of Smith Sound (Ibis, 1877, p. 407 ; Xares' Narr. 



Fig. 573. — Red-breasted Sandpiper. (From Seebohm'8 Charadriida-.) 



Flo. .'■i74. — SandprlitiR. (Prom Spohnbiii's rimrndriida'. ) 



ii, lf<78, p. 211 : nestlings <.u July :«), u..\v in I?riti.-<h Museum); and by Geu. A. W. Groely 

 on tlie nortiieru shore of Lady Franklin Ray, hit. 81° 44'; also. Point Harrow, Alaska (Mur- 

 <i<'idi), and said tu breeil S. to hit. .').5'' on Hudson's ]V.\y (Nelson). No autlientic ecus known 



