LEAST SANDPIPER 
242. Pisobia minutilla. 6 in. 
Smallest of our sandpipers. Upperparts blackish, 
edged with bright chestnut; breast and sides ashy-gray, 
conspicuously streaked with dusky. 
Notes.—A musical whistle, “ peet-weet.” 
Nest.—A grass lined hollow: eggs grayish, heavily 
blotched with blackish brown (1.15 x.80). 
Range.—Breeds from Nova Scotia and northern Brit- 
ish Columbia northward; winters from the Gulf States 
and California southward. 
SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER 
246. Hreunetes pusillus. 6.25 in. 
Feet with small webs between the toes at their base. 
Similar in size and form to the Least Sandpiper, but 
the upper parts are not as bright rusty, and the breast 
is only faintly streaked with dusky. 
Range.—Breeds from Labrador northward. 
247. WESTERN SANDPIPER (E. mauri) is very 
similar; more rusty above, with stronger markings. 
