SCOLOPACIDH, SNIPE, ETC. — 207-11. : 255 
Baird’s Sandpiper. Medium; 7-74; wing 44-48 ; tail 24; bill, tarsus, 
and middle toe with claw about %; bill and feet black ; colors almost exactly 
as in the last species ; edgings of upper plumage rather tawny than chestnut ; 
jugular suffusion pale, rather fulvous, the streaks small and sparse, some- 
times almost obsolete. North and South America; rare on the Atlantic 
coast (Long Island, Henshaw; Am. Nat. vi, 306). Tringa schinzii 
Woonu., Sitgreaves Rep. 1853, 100. 7. bonapartet Cass. in Bp., 722 (in 
part). “2. maculata, Scutecey, Mus. Pays-Bas, Scolopaces, 39 (in part). 
A. bairdii, Couxs, Proc. Phila. Acad. 1861, 194; 1866, 97; ScuaTER, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1862, 369 (Mexico) ; 1867, 332 (Chili, ete.) ; Dann and Bann., 
Trans. Chicago Acad. i, 292 (Alaska) ; AtLEN, Bull. MiG. Z., 1812; k32 
(Kansas) ; Harting, Ibis, 1870, 151 (S. Africa!). . . . . BAIRDII. 
Pectoral Sandpiper. Jack Snipe. Grass Snipe. Large; 84-9 ; wing 
5-54; bill, tarsus, and middle toe with claw about 14; bill and feet greenish ; 
crown noticeably different from cervix ; edging of scapulars bright chestnut, 
straight-edged ; chin whitish, definitely contrasted with the heavily ashy- 
shaded and sharply dusky-streaked jugulum. North America, abundant. 
Nort., ii, 111; Aup., v, 259, pl. 359; Cass. in Bp., 720. . MACULATA. 
++ Upper tail coverts white, with or without dusky marks; jugulum sharply 
streaked, but with little or no ashy suffusion. 
White-rumped Sandpiper. Medium; size of bairdii; feet black; bill 
black, light-colored at base below; plumage as in the foregoing species, 
excepting the above particulars. An ashy wash on the jugulum is hardly 
appreciable except in young birds, and then it is slight; the streaks are 
very numerous, broad and distinct, extending as specks nearly or quite to 
the bill, and as shaft lines along the sides; while the white upper tail coverts 
are a diagnostic feature. Eastern N. Am. to the Rocky Mountains. 
Western? An abundant species along the Atlantic Coast. T. schinzit 
Sw., Fn. Bor.-Am. ii, 384; Nurr., ii, 109; Aup., v, 275; 7. bonapartit 
Conse, fin Bing, Uae eG Saree ieee) cece a BONAPARTEI. 
Cooper’s Sandpiper. Largest; 933 wing 5%; tail 23; bill 17; tarsus Ieye 
Like the last in color. Long Island; only one specimen known. It is 
uncertain whether this is a good species or an unusual state of J’. canutus 
or A. maculata. Bo., 716; Cours, Proc. Phila. Acad. 1861, 202. COOPERII. 
** Bill, tarsus, and middle toe, obviously not of equal length.’ 
{ Tarsus shorter than middle toe; tibiee feathered. (Arquatella.) 
Purple Sandpiper. Bill little longer than head, much longer than tarsus, 
straight or nearly so; tibial feathers long, reaching to the joint, though 
the legs are really bare a little way above ; tarsus shorter than middle toe; - 
8-9; wing 5; tail 23, rounded ; bill 14; tarsus 3; middle toe 1 or a little 
more. Adult: above ashy-black with purplish and violet reflections, most of 
the feathers with pale or white edging ; secondaries mostly white; line over 
eye, eyelids, and under parts white, the breast and jugulum a pale cast of 
the-color of the back, and sides marked with the same. In winter, and 
most immature birds, the colors are similar but much duller; very young 
