180 THE BIRDS OF MAINE 



Geog. Dist. — Chiefly interior North America ; breeding in Arctic regions, 

 Yukon Valley, interior British America; wintering in South America to 

 Uruguay and Peru ; frequent in Europe. 



County Records. — Cumberland ; I have taken as many as four in a single 

 fall and many of my friends have shot it, (Brown); one at Cape Elizabeth, 

 September 13, 1887, (Smith); one in 1899 and one in 1901, (Lord). 



Mr Brown writes me that he considers the species a regular 

 fall migrant in August and September. Our only records are 

 from the vicinity of Portland, though under the conditions of 

 its occurrence there it seems likely that careful search should 

 yield an occasional instance of its occurrence elsewhere along 

 the coast. 



I am unable to state much regarding the habits of this species. 

 Chapman quotes Dr. Hatch as saying that in Minnesota the 

 species prefers sandy barren prairies where they live upon grass- 

 hoppers, crickets, ants and their eggs, and insects generally, 

 and also that along the sandy shores of small ponds they were 

 feeding on small mollusks. 



Genus ACTITIS Illiger. 



263. Actitisniacularia (luinn.^. Spotted Sandpiper; Teeter- 

 tail; Tip-up; Sand-lark; Peet-weet; Teeter "...". 



Plumage of summer adults: brownish gray with greenish luster above 

 with blackish streaks on head and neck and spots or bars of same on back ; 

 outer tail feathers with dark bars ; below white with roundish spots of black. 

 Plumage of winter adults: back browner, unbarred. Immature plumage: 

 differs from other plumages in being strongly barred on the wing coverts 

 with black and buffy and faintly with same on back ; below white with gray- 

 ish tinge on breast. Wing 4.00 to 4.50 ; culmen 1.00 ; tarsus 0.94. 



Geog. Dist. — Breeding range temperate North America north to Hudson 

 Bay ; wintering through South America to Brazil ; occasional in Europe. 



County Records. — Androscoggin ; common summer resident, (Johnson). 

 Aroostook; rather common summer resident, (Knight). Cumberland; com- 

 mon summer resident, (Mead). Franklin ; common summer resident, (Swain). 

 Hancock; many breed among the islands of the coast as well as inland, 

 (Knight). Kennebec; common summer resident, (Gardiner Branch). Knox; 

 summer, (Rackliff). Lincoln; common, breeding on the islands, (Norton). 

 Oxford; breeds commonly, (Nash). Penobscot; common local summer 

 resident, (Knight). Piscataquis; common, breeds, (Homer). Sagadahoc; 



