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SHORE BIKDS. 



1. RUFF, P. PUGNAX. 11.00; bill, 1.25; colors, very 

 variable, above varied with black, buff, and gray; ruff and 

 cape either chestnut, buff, black, or whitish, streaked, plain 

 or barred ; beneath, white; sides of rump white, fig. 97. 

 Female, without ruff and cape; plumage barred with black- 

 ish, white and rusty, face feathered. Young, brownish-black 

 above with the feathers bor- Fig. 97. 



dered on back with buff and 

 streaked on head with reddish ; 

 white beneath, becoming buffy' 

 anteriorly. More northern 

 parts of eastern hemisphere ; oc- 

 casional in eastern U. S., but 

 chiefly on the coast, 

 n. Highland Sandpipers. 

 Bartramia. 

 Rather large sandpipers 

 that live on the uplands, with 

 short, slender bills with a very 

 wide gape, enabling the birds to 

 swallow locusts and other in- 

 sects upon which they f eed ; 

 neck, long and thin; tail, very Gr, D, m, 1. 1-5. 

 long ; outer toes slightly webbed, inner not at all, other char- 

 acters much as in e, fig. 98. 



1. BARTRAMIAN SANDPIPER, B. longicauda. 12.00; 

 bill, 1.10. Brownish-buff above, varied with reddish and 

 spotted and barred with blackish; tail, buff, tipped with 

 white and somewhat banded with spots of black ; beneath 

 buffy-white banded on under wing coverts and axillaries 

 and spotted with arrow shaped marks on neck, breast and 

 sides with dusky-brown, fig. 98. Young, differ in being 

 more yellowish above and the secondaries and inner prima- 

 ries are tipped with white. Downy young, grayish-white, 

 tinged with rusty coarsely and irregularly mottled with 

 dusky; beneath, buffy-white, spots on flanks and on sides of 



