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and buffy as to appear these colors. Plumage of winter adults: differs 

 chiefly in being bordered above with rufous and with buffy tinge to the 

 breast. Immature plumage: differs chiefly in having rounded light buff 

 tips to the upper feathers. Wing 5.10 to 5.60 ; culmen 1.18 ; tarsus 1.05. 



Geog. Dist. — North America, breeding in Arctic regions ; migrating south 

 through the United States and wintering in the West Indies and South 

 America. 



County Records. — Androscoggin; common at Sabattus pond in October, 

 1897 and 1899, (C. D. Farrar). Cumberland; transient in autumn only, 

 arriving in early August or sometimes late July, and departing in October, 

 common, (Brown, C. P. B. p. 26). Franklin ; rare migrant, (Sweet). Knox ; 

 (Rackliff). Oxford; not common at Norway in autumn, (Verrill, L. B. N.). 

 Piscataquis ; rare migrant, (Homer). Sagadahoc ; common in fall, (Spinney). 

 Somerset; quite common migrant, one shot November 10, 1898, (Morrell). 

 Washington; common in fall, (Boardman). 



A fall migrant which is general and common along the coast 

 from August to October, while inland it is likely to occur in 

 almost any section of the State during the same season. Spring 

 records seem rare. They frequent salt marshes and meadows, 

 feeding in scattered array but migrating in flocks. 



Their food is similar to that of the other Sandpipers, per- 

 haps more noticeably consisting of insects however. The male 

 bird is said during the breeding season to inflate its breast and 

 throat to a large size and utter a deep, hollow reasonant note 

 (Nelson). When frightened into flight when feeding they utter 

 a rasping whistle. Murdock records it as breeding at Point 

 Barrow, Alaska. The nests contained four eggs each, these 

 being of a drab color, sometimes greenish tinged, and spotted 

 with umber brown. The average size is 1,45 x 1.04. 



240. Actodromas fuscicolUs (Vieill.). White-rumped Sand- 

 piper; Bonaparte's Sandpiper. 



Plumage of summer adults : above black with rufous edgings to feathers ; 

 rump fuscous with lighter edgings ; upper tail coverts white, sometimes 

 slightly tinged with grayish markings ; central tail feathers fuscous, outer 

 ones gray ; below white with strong streaks of blackish on the neck, breast 

 and sides and more or less ochraceous tinged spots in same places. Plumage 

 of winter adults: differs from summer plumage in being brownish gray 

 above with rather faint and smaller darkish streakings, and marks below 

 duller and less distinct. Immature plumage : differs in having the feathers 



