TIic Sandpipers. 



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The Pectoral Sandpiper. 



South America. It has heen met with in 

 Great Britain on at least twenty-live oc- 

 casions, and is to be told by the broad band 

 across the breast, the brown legs and dark 

 upper tail-coverts. During the breeding- 

 season the male has a habit of inflating his 

 throat till it hangs down like a kind of dew- 

 lap. The nest is built in the grass in a 

 high and dry situation, and the eggs are 

 four in number, pear-shaped, stone-grey, 

 with spots, blotches, and tiny dots of 

 blackish brown and pale grey. 



THE SHARP-TAILED 

 PECTORAL 

 SANDPIPER. 



[Hetcropygia acituiinatn.) 



This species is 

 very like the Pec- 

 toral Sandpiper, but 

 has not such a wide 

 breast-band, which 

 is also not so well-defined, while the 

 flanks are plentifully streaked with dusky 

 black. Its home is in North-eastern 

 Siberia, and it migrates in winter to 

 Alaska, Japan, China, and as far south as 

 Australia. It has twice occurred in Norfolk. 



The Sharp-tailed Pectoral Sandpiper. 



BONAPARTE'S 



SANDPIPER. 



(hh'tcropyg'uT fuscicuHis.) 



This is very like 



a small Dunlin in 



appearance, but is 



^ -i^rr=;-=.-;^,-/^- distinguished by its 



\ V^ '-''' shorter bill, which is not longer than the 



^^ V*' tarsus. The upper tail-coverts are white, and 



this character suffices to separate Bonaparte's 

 Sandpiper at all ages. It is a common 

 North American species, but has been found 

 accidently in Great Britain about a dozen times. It has occurred as far east as Franz 

 Josef Land, where Mr. V. G. Jackson obtained it. 



The bill is longer than the tarsus in this species, and the 

 THE PURPLE ,.^j,^^ j^ j^^j g^j^j,^, j^, j,,y ,^.„^.th of the middle toe. The thigh 

 is feathered right down to the bend of the tarsus. The Purple 

 Sandpiper may nest on the hills of the Shetlands and the moors 



Bonaparte'.s Sandpiper. 



SANDPIPER. 

 (Arquatella maritima.) 



