‘THE PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 653 
No. 261. 
PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 
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A. O. U. No. 239. Pisobia maculata (Vieill.). 
Synonyms.—Grass SNIPE. KRIEKER. JACK SNIPE. 
Description.—Adult: Above, ground-color, blackish, everywhere heavily 
margined, and thus finely streaked, with ochraceous-buff, ochraceous, or rusty, 
and with some grayish or whitish edging on the larger feathers; darker on crown, 
where streaked with rusty only; wing-quills dusky, the first primary only with 
white shaft; rump and upper tail-coverts black, delicately tipped with rusty; tail 
sharply pointed, the central feathers longest,—blackish centrally, brownish gray 
laterally, with ochraceous or white edging; below, sides of head and neck, fore- 
neck and breast finely, sharply, and heavily streaked with dusky on a dull white 
or buffy ground; throat and remaining underparts white; bill and feet greenish 
dusky. Coloring in winter perhaps more blended. ‘There seems to be no con- 
stant difference between summer and winter plumages,—conflicting authorities 
to the contrary. Jmmature: <A little brighter-colored above, with sharper mark- 
ings and more rusty, and with considerable white edging on larger feathers of 
back; the breast more deeply buffy, and the streaks, if possible, more numerous. 
Length 8.00-9.50 (203.2-241.3); wing 5.40 (137.2); tail 2.67 (67.8); bill 1.17 
(29.7) ; tarsus 1.10 (27.9). 
Recognition Marks.—Chewink size, but appearing larger; fine streaking 
of fore-neck and breast on heavy ground, contrasting with pure white of throat 
and belly, distinctive for size. 
Nesting.—Does not breed in Washington. Nest: on the ground. Eggs: 4, 
drab, sometimes with a greenish shade, spotted and blotched with reddish brown. 
Av: size, 1.45 x 1.04 (36.8x 26.4). Season: June. 
General Range.—Jhe whole of North America and the West Indies, and 
the greater part of South America. Breeds in the Arctic regions. Of frequent 
occurrence in Europe. 
Range in Washington.—Not common migrant on Puget Sound ;—has not 
been reported from East-side. 
Authorities.—77ringa maculata Vieill., Baird, Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv. 1858, 
peg2is (C&S: Be i. 
Specimens.—(U. of W.) Prov. P*. B. 
“CASUAL during migrations” is about as much as we can allow for this 
interesting species, which is so abundant East. It rarely occurs alongshore and 
then only as a single individual, over-persuaded by a flock of beach-loving 
companions with whom it has cast a migrant’s lot. Its normal range com- 
prises flooded meadows, upland marshes, and the borders of pools. Flocks are 
sometimes seen in spring, but more records are occasioned by young birds trying 
to improve upon the established migration route of their elders, a course which 
seems to pass from Alaska eastward, and thence down the Mississippi Valley. 
