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whitish, barred with blackish ; below white with spots and streaks on the 

 breast and bars on the flanks of blackish. Plumage of winter adults : brown- 

 ish gray above with whitish spots on sides of feathers ; bars of tail grayish ; 

 breast only lightly streaked with dark. Wing 6.00 to 6.70; culmen 1.40; 

 tarsus 2.10. 



Geog. Dist.— North America ; breeds from Ontario Co., N. Y., Minnesota 

 and northern Illinois (rarely in the U. S.) northward, breeding usually in 

 Arctic regions ; winters from the Gulf States to Patagonia. 



County Records. — Androscoggin ; (Pike); one at Sabattus Pond, October, 

 1898, (C. D. Farrar). Cumberland; common, (Brock). Franklin; rare 

 migrant, (Sweet). Knox; (Rackliff). Oxford; not common at Norway, 

 (Verrill, L. B. N.). Penobscot; (Hardy). Sagadahoc; common in fall, 

 (Spinney). Somerset; migrant, (Morrell). Washington; common only in 

 fall, (Boardman). 



This species in the fall usually appears in late July and remains 

 until early October or occasionally as late as Oct. 17 (Brown). 

 It appears to be much more seldom observed or reported than 

 the preceding species from which it is readily distinguished by 

 the smaller size. They are not known to or is there any rea- 

 son for suspecting that they breed in Maine. 



In Alaska, the MacFarland and Anderson River regions 

 they lay their eggs in a mere depression on the ground, often 

 at the foot of a small bush. The set consists usually of four 

 eggs which are described as being light drab, clay, buffy or 

 cream colored, spotted boldly with splashed blotches of choco- 

 late, umber, brown and blackish, the markings being very 

 thick or even confluent at the larger end of the eggs, (Davie). 

 The sizes range from 1.58 to 1.78 long by about 1.16 broad. 

 In habits, food etc. there is nothing to distinguish this species 

 from the Greater Yellow-legs. 



Genus HELODROMAS Kaup. 



256. Helodromas solitarius (Wils.). Solitary Sandpiper; 

 Solitary Tattler; American Green Sandpiper. 



Plumage of summer adults: olive fuscous above, the head and neck 

 streaked with whitish ; the back often with a greenish tinge to the brownish 

 gray and spotted with white; lateral tail coverts sometimes barred, the 

 upper ones with fine light spots at the sides ; the two central tail feathers 



