THE LEAST SANDPIPER. 511 
drab or grayish buff, speckled and spotted with deep chestnut and purplish gray. 
INNS GIGASS MGI Xe Sols) (AOA ae Aitcit)e 
General Range.—The whole of North and South America, breeding north of 
the United States. 
Range in Ohio.—Common migrant. 
IT is with a distinct sense of privilege that one is permitted to gaze 
upon a company of these elfin waders at meal time. Not soon shall I forget 
a Sunday stroll which led past the corner of a certain brickyard pond on a 
bright May after- 
noon. A tiny babel 
of soft peeping had 
given us warning of 
what we might ex- 
pect to see, if we 
managed to steal up 
to the edge of the 
shallow cut unob- 
served. By exercis- 
ing care and _ pa- 
tience, both my wife 
and I succeeded in 
seating ourselves on 
the near brink with- 
out alarming the lit- 
tle strangers. Thev 
seemed to accept ts 
as a part of that gra- 
cious horizon which 
is the birthright of 
both innocence and 
optimism. So con- 
fiding were they that 
at a distance of thir- 
ty feet they not only 
went on in thei 
quest of food, but 
one had a sound nap 
on shore, a Sunday 
nap, with his head 
tucked snugly  un- 
der his wing. 
In their search for food the Peeps appeared to depend entirely upon their 
bright eyes to spy tidbits and unguessable delicacies in the shallow water or 
Taken at Cedar Port. Photo by the Author. 
SANDPIPER PARK. 
