228 SCOLOPACID^ : SNIPE, ETC. 



session a fine spring specimen, which was shot on Cape 

 Cod about the lothof May, 1878. Another specimen is 

 in the collection made by-Mr. Baldwin Coolidge (now in 

 possession of the city of Lawrence, Mass.), which was 

 taken on Nahant Beach some ten years ago, and at that 

 time was preserved by Mr. N. Vickery, of Lynn." 



Thus, overlooking all accounts not accompanied by 

 the particulars, there would appear to be at least ten 

 well authenticated instances of the occurrence of the 

 Curlew Sandpiper in New England, aside from those in 

 New Brunswick and Long Island, and about a dozen 

 individuals appear to have been actually taken within 

 our limits. 



RED-BREASTED SANDPIPER; ASH-COLORED 

 SANDPIPER; ROBIN SNIPE; KNOT. 



Tringa canutus Linn. 



Chars. Largest of the Sandpipers ; length, 10.50; extent, 20.50; 

 wing, 6.40; tail, 2.75; bill, 1.40; tarsus, 1.20; middle toe and 

 claw 1. 00. Adult in summer: Above brownish-black, each 

 feather tipped and edged with ashy-white, tinged with reddish- 

 yellow on the scapufars ; rump dark ash, barred with dusky ; 

 upper tail-coverts white, with sagittate or crescentic dark bars. 

 Tail grayish-ash, edged with ashy-white. Line over eye and 

 entire under parts brownish-red, fading into white on the flanks 

 and crissum, the latter with sagittate dark marks. Bill and feet 

 greenish-black. Young : Above, uniform dark ash, with a con- 

 spicuous set of black and white semicircles, very characteristic of 

 the species ; under parts white, more or less tinged with reddish, 

 the throat, breast, and sides with dark marks. 



This large and handsome species, remarkable for its 

 seasonal differences of plumage, but in any state readily 



