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It may be accounted rare, but not a straggler, for I am satis 

 fied now that it remains within the vicinity of where I have 

 met with it, as it was late in July in two instances. Their 

 habit of prodding under the stones along the beach of the 

 lake near which my summer cottage is located, interested me 

 exceedingly. The crop was abundantly stored with larvae and 

 insects that abound there. I think ^hat they remain about as 

 late in the autumn as do the average of the Sandpipers, before 

 retiring for the winter. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 



Upper parts variegated with black, dark rufous, and white; 

 head and neck above white, with numerous spots and stripes 

 of brownish-black on the crown and occiput; space in front of 

 eye white, surrounded with black; throat white on each side 

 of which is a stripe of black running from the base of the 

 bill downwards and joining a large space of black on the 

 neck before the breast; abdomen, under wing coverts, under 

 tail coverts, back and rump, white; quills brownish-black, 

 with white shafts; tail white at base, with its terminal half 

 brownish-black, tipped with white; greater wing coverts 

 widely tipped with white, forming a conspicuous oblique bar 

 across the wing; bill black; legs orange; in winter the black 

 of the upper parts is more apparent; the rufous of less ex 

 tent, and of lighter shade; iris hazel. 



Length, 9; wing, 6; tail, 2.50. 



Habitat, nearly cosmopolitan. 



