SNIPES, SANDPIPERS 167 



Geog. Dist. — North America, breeding in Arctic latitudes and wintering 

 from Florida southward ; also Eastern Asia. 



County Records. — Cumberland ; transient, rare in spring, common in 

 autumn, (Brown, C. B. P. p. 27). Knox; migrant, (Rackliff). Washington; 

 rare, (Boardman). 



Seemingly rather a local migrant along the coast in October 

 and in spring very rare indeed, occurring during the very last 

 days of May. It has been found nesting on the Arctic coast, 

 Melville Peninsula and in Southern Greeland. 



The nest is said to be built near lakes and ponds and is a 

 mere hollow in the ground. The four eggs usually laid are 

 described as dull brownish bufFor clay color, spotted and blotched 

 with chestnut, chiefly about the larger ends. They average 1.43 

 X 1.01 (Davie). 



Genus EROLIA Vieillot. 



244. Erolia ferruginea (Brunn.). Curlew Sandpiper. 



Plumage of summer'adults : above mixed blackish and rusty ; head, neck 

 and under parts (except anal region and under tail coverts) deep cinnamon 

 rufous or chestnut. Plumage of winter adults : brownish gray above, the 

 feathers with faint dusky centers ; chest faintly streaked with grayish ; 

 superciliary stripe, upper tail coverts and other lower parts white. Immature 

 plumage : dusky above with whitish tips and buffy edgings to the feathers 

 of the back and scapulars; lesser and middle wing coverts with terminal 

 borders of dull buff; chest and sides washed with buff. (Ridgw.). Wing 

 4.85 to 5.15 ; culmen 1.49 ; tarsus 1.18. 



Geog. Dist. — Old World ; occasional in Ontario, Nova Scotia, Maine, Mass- 

 achusetts, Long Island and Alaska. 



County Records. — Cumberland ; one was killed at Pine Point, September 

 15, 1881, by Charles H. Chandler, (Purdie, B. N. 0. C. 7, p. 124). 



We have only the one record for Maine, another one erron- 

 eously credited to the State being really taken at GRAND 

 MENAN, NEW BRUNSWICK. Writers of the past, either 

 through ignorance, or because through covetousness they had 

 really came to believe Grand Menan belonged to Maine, have 

 persistently credited Grand Menan birds to this State. 



Mr. Boardman assured me that his specimen was not taken 

 in Maine, as the past writers were so persistent in having us 



