ONTARIO. 



deep ; feathers on the side of lower mandible evidently reaching further than 

 those on upper. Upper parts brownish-black (deepest on the rump and 

 middle upper tail-coverts, and lightest on the neck behind), each feather 

 bordered and tipped with pale brownish-yellow, the tipping of the scapulars 

 broadest and nearly white, their marginings broad and brightest in tint, 

 making several deep scallops toward the shafts of the feathers. Only the 

 outer series black, the others plain gray, with paler margins. Jugulum 

 tinged with light, dull yellowish-brown, spotted and streaked with ill-defined 

 blackish markings, as are also the sides under the wings. Throat and other 

 under parts white, unmarked. Feet black, like the bill. Length, 7-25 ; 

 extent, 15-25 ; wing, 4-90 ; bill, 85 ; tarsus, middle toe and claw, the same. 

 The female is entirely similar, but slightly larger. The young have the upper 

 parts wholly light brownish-ash, darker on the rump, and all the feathers 

 with a dark field, and pale or whitish edging ; waves of brownish black on 

 the scapulars. Jugulum and breast suffused with dull, light reddish-brown ; 

 the spotting small, sparse, and very indistinct. 



Hab. The whole of North and South America, but chiefly the interior 

 of North and the western portions of South America. Rare along the Atlantic 

 coast, and not yet recorded from the Pacific coast. 



Known to breed only in the Arctic regions. 



Eggs, 3 to 4 ; clay color, spotted with rich umber-brown. 



Dr. Coues, in his new Key to North American Birds, says 

 that " this is the most abundant small Sandpiper in some parts 

 of the West during migrations," yet it has not been found on 

 the Pacific coast and is quite rare on the Atlantic. The only 

 record we have of its occurrence in Ontario is that of a fine 

 specimen now in my collection which was shot at the Beach on 

 the 25th of August, 1885, by K. C. Mcllwraith. It was singled 

 out among a flock of small Sandpipers by its peculiar erratic 

 Snipe-like flight, and on being secured its dainty little body 

 was picked up with feelings which only the enthusiastic 

 collector can understand. 



It is named after S. F. Baird, of the Smithsonian institution, 

 and, so far as known, is peculiar to the American continent. 



On the 23rd of August, 1886, while this article was in the 

 printer's hands, the locality where the specimen herein referred 

 to was obtained was again visited, and strange to say another 

 individual of the species was got at the same place, under 

 similar circumstances. On the ist of September the place was 



97 



