62 Bird-Life in Labrador. 



SOLITARY SANDPIPER 



Rhyacophilus so/itarius. — (WiLS.) Bp. 



Not rare in Spring and Fall. Breeds. I saw this little 

 sandpiper on several occasions but always alone and standing 

 or running about some slippery water or kelp-covered rock in 

 a most melancholy manner. I would not call it common yet 

 it was hardly rare. 



SPOTTED SANDPIPER 



Tringoidex iiiacti/((rii(K. — (L.) Gray. 



The same remarks might be made of this bird as of the 

 last, and with equal propriety, as to its occurrence and breed- 

 ing ; but it is much more common, confined more to the land 

 and shore line, and far more tame. It is familiarly known 

 there as here by the names " tip-up," ^' teeter," etc., though 

 by far its most common epithet is that of the " crooked- 

 winged bird," doubtless from the peculiar way in which it 

 holds its wings when flying. 



HUDSONIAN CURLEW JACK CURLEW 



Numenius hudftonicus. — IjATH. 



The Jack Curlew much resembles the Esquimaux Curlew; 

 but it is easily distinguished by its call, whicli is louder and 

 less refined than that of the latter bird. It appears later in the 

 Fall, in much lesser numbers, is more solitary in its habits, and 

 frequents the water 'sedge more than the interior sweeps of hill- 

 side and meadow, the home of its neighbor. It is not rare in 

 Fall — the only time of the year I saw it. 



ESQUIMAUX CURLEW DOUGH BIRD 



Nuiiicniut< horealh. — (FoitsT.) Lath. 



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