DIKECTOKY TO BIRDS OF EASTERX NORTH AMERICA. 



81$ 



head, black, Breeds through eastern and central X, A, from 

 Penn. north to Quebec Fig. 98. 



in suitable places. 

 The call note is very- 

 musical and bubbling 

 and is almost invaria- 

 bly given as the bird 

 flies. I not infrequent- 

 ly hear it here in New- 

 ton as the bird flies 

 over my house during 

 migrations, sometimes 

 in the night; if dis- "^^ 

 turbed when breeding Gr, D, n, 1. 1-6. 



it utters harsher cries ; and when alighting emits a chuckling 

 sound. Frequents the hill tops near the coast especially in 

 the autumn, but sometimes occurs on the marshes both in 

 N. E. and further south ; goes south in Sep. to winter in. 

 northern S. A. ; comes north in April and May. 



o. Buffy Sandpipers. Tryngites. 

 Rather small, slender sandpipers with shorter tails than 

 in n, and with bill more slender, otherwise quite similar. 



1. BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, T. subruficollis. 





Ficf. 99. 



8.00; bill, .80; grayish- 

 buff above mixed with 

 blackish ; buff beneath 

 somewhat spotted on 

 breast with duskv ; ax- 

 illaries, white, show- 

 ing in flight ; lining of 

 wing and inner webs 

 of primaries, white, 

 marbled with dusky. 

 Young, differ in hav- 

 ing the feathers bor- 

 dered with whitish. 

 Breeds in the far north- 



