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grayish buff above, with occasional indications of rusty, and white 

 below with the breast grayish white streaked with dusky. In the 

 hand it may be told from its small relative, the semipalmated sand- 

 piper, by the lack of webs between the toes, while in life it is marked 

 from that species by the greenish tarsi. 



PISOBIA MELANOTOS (Vieillot) 

 PECTORAL SANDPIPER, ZARAPICO MANCHADO 



Tringa melanotos Vieuxot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., vol. 34, 1819, p. 462 

 (Paraguay). 



?Becassine des savannes, Descourtiez, Voy. Nat., vol. 2, 1809, pp. 216-217 

 (Haiti). 



Cinclus Dominicensis Brisson, Ornith., vol. 5, 1760, pp. 219-222, pi. 24, fig. 1. 

 (" S. Domingue.") 



Tringa dominicensis Degland, Orn. Eur., vol. 2, 1S49, p. 232, (Based on 

 Brisson.) 



Tringa maculata, Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, p. 322 (listed). 



Pisobia melanotos, Danforth, Auk, 1929, p. 364 (Les Salines). 



Pisobia melanotus, Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., vol. 68, 1929, p. 313 

 (San Juan, specimens). 



Migrant : status uncertain. 



Abbott shot a pectoral sandpiper on Saona Island September 15, 

 and two more on Catalina Island September 19, 1919. Ciferri se- 

 cured two at Sabana San Thome, San Juan, August 11, 1928. 



These are the only records for the Dominican Republic. 



The Alouette-de-mer de S. Domingue or Cinclus Dominicensis of 

 Brisson taken from a bird in the Reaumur collection secured by 

 Chervain has been identified as the present species and has served as 

 the basis for Tringa dominicensis Degland. Descourtilz described a 

 bird as the Becassine des savannes that is possibly the pectoral sand- 

 piper but this is not certain. Tippenhauer lists this species without 

 comment. Danforth writes that he saw two at Les Salines July 

 30, 1927. No specimen, other than that of Brisson is known from 

 Haiti. 



This sandpiper is found on muddy shores where it wades about 

 quietly, or in recently flooded meadows where it may not be seen until 

 it flushes suddenly with a harsh note. It is found usually on fresh 

 or brackish waters. It nests in the far north and spends the winter 

 in South America so that it should visit Hispaniola regularly in 

 spring and fall. 



The pectoral sandpiper is streaked with blackish and rusty buff 

 above, and below is white with a grayish buff band streaked with 

 dusky across the breast. The wing measures 119 to 146 mm., and the 

 bird is shorter legged than other sandpipers with which it might be 

 confused. The tarsus is dull greenish. 



