WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER 
240. Pisobia fuscicollis. 7.5 in. 
Upper tail coverts white; below white, but with the 
throat and breast streaked with dusky, these markings 
extending on the sides to the tail. 
Notes.—Musical whistles in no way different from 
those of the Least Sandpiper. 
Nest.—On the ground, in grass back of beaches; eggs 
gray, profusely blotched with blackish brown. 
Range.—Eastern N. A., breeding from Labrador and 
Hudson Bay northward; migrates through the U. 8. 
~ east of the Rockies, to southern South America. 
BAIRD SANDPIPER 
241. Pisobia bairdi. 7.5 in. 
Of the same size, form and general coloration as the 
White-rumped Sandpiper, but the upper tail-coverts are 
blackish, and the breast is only very faintly streaked. 
Range.—Breeds in the Arctic regions, and migrates 
~ chiefly through the interior, but to some extent on the 
coast, south to southern South America. 
