THE BAIRD SANDPIPER. 6 
General Range.—North America chiefly in the interior during migrations ; 
breeds in the high North and winters in Central and South America, south to the 
Falkland Islands. Occasional in Europe. 
Range in Washington.—Common migrant on the East-side, sometimes 
abundant in August, and visiting the highest lakes of the Cascades. Not yet 
reported from Puget Sound. 
Authorities——Dawson, Auk, Vol. XVIII., Oct. 1901, p. 402. D2. 
Specimens.—Proy. P'. 
Pitan Reo o\s 5 
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER. 
APART from a few fragments of authentic information which have 
drifted down to us from Arctic America, the various reviews of this bird are 
cleverly disguised confessions of ignorance. ‘There really is little to distin- 
guish it during migrations, as it associates with any one of half a dozen closely 
related species. The case is even worse when it appears alone by some way- 
side plash or mountain lakelet. We should like to be very certain which of 
several white and gray nondescripts it is, but what business have we to shoot 
