130 REPOET OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



241 Pisobia bairdi (Coues). 



Baird's Sandpiper. 



Length, 7-7.50. Wing, 4.60-4.80. Closely resembles the preceding in size 

 and general appearance, but the rump is broadly dusky in the middle and the 

 breast strongly tinged with buff. 



Rare transient in the autumn. There is but one record, a male 

 shot at Stone Harbor September 5th, 1898, by Mr. David McCadden, 

 and now in the collection of the Philadelphia Academy. It was pre- 

 sented by Mr. H. W. Fowler. 



242 Pisobia minutilla (Vieillot). 

 Least Sandpiper, Peep, Oxeye. 



Adults in spring. — Length, 5-6.50. Wing, 3.50-3.75. Above, black, irregu- 

 larly marked and streaked with rusty and buff; rump and upper tail-coverts, 

 dull black ; under parts, white, except foreneck and chest, which are tinged 

 with brown and streaked with dusky. 



In autumn. — Plain brownish-gray above ; throat and abdomen, white ; breast, 

 ashy-gray, obscurely streaked. 



Very common transient, occurring during May, and again July 

 15th to September 15th. At Long Beach, in 1877, Mr. Scott^ found 

 them as early as July 7th. 



They occur up the Delaware oecasionally, usually in August, and 

 at various places inland. Mr. Babson- found them at Princeton in 

 May, and from July 25th to September 10th. Audubon found them 

 on the Raritan River July 29th, 1832, and Wilson records them on 

 the Schuylkill, at Philadelphia, in August. 



243a Pelidna alpina sakhalina (Vieillot). 

 Red-backed Sandpiper, Black-breast, Dunlin. 



Adults in spring. — Length, 7.60-8.75. Wing, 4.60-4.95. Head, neck and 

 breast (except chin), dull white, streaked with black; top of head strongly 

 tinged with rusty ; back, black, bordered with rusty ; wings, dull brownish, 



^ Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 1879. 

 ^ Birds of Princeton. 



