166 SNIPES, SANDIMPKUS, ETC. 



Sandpiper, but is larger (W., 6-75), and has the upper tail-coverts pure 

 white. 



256. Tetanus solitariua < HV/*.). SOLITARY SAXI-I-H-I.K. Ad. in 

 tummer. Upper parts olivf-1'ust.-cms, with a di^ht greenish tinu'e, the head 

 and neck streaked and the buck spotted with white; uppi-r tail-c<>verts fus- 

 cous, with fine whitish spots on their sides, the lateral ones sometimes barred ; 

 central pair of tail-ft-athera fuecous, the others white, burred with bluck ; 



Flo. M. Inner view of wing of Solitary Sandpiper, showing barred axillars. 



breast streaked, and nidi* sometimes barred with black; belly white; axillara 

 barred with black and wliite; legs greenish fuscous. \\'int<r {>hiina<je. Simi- 

 lar, but upper parta grayish brown ; head and neck generally unstreakcd. and 

 the back only lightly Knitted with bully white; breuht streaked with bnnvn- 

 ih gray. L., 8-40; W., 5-^5; Tun, I-.'"; H., 1-16. 



Ifanye. Kaotern North America; breeds locally and rarely from northern 

 Illinois, western Pennsylvania, and Maine northward ; winters in South 

 America. 



Washinfrton, common T. V., Apl. to May 2"> ; July _'.") to Nov. T,on<j 

 Island, common T. V., May: July 15 to Oct. 1. Sin.' Sin^r. eonnnoii T. V., 

 May 8 to 30; Aug. 27 to Oct 2. Cambridge, common T. V., May 15 to 25; 

 July 20 to Oct 



E'ff(r, known from only one example taken by Jctmess Richardson, near 

 Lake Hombuxine. Vermont. May 28, 1878, and described by Dr. I'rewer as 

 light drab, with small, rounded, brown markings, some quite dark, nowhere 

 conUucnt, and at the larger end a few faint purplish shell-marks, l-0'.i x !.">. 



This is n wood Sandpiper. It is rarely found on the beaches or salt 

 marshes near tin- sea. but frequents fresh-water ponds, or lakes and 

 woodland streams, both in the lowlands and mountains. It is pencr- 

 t 1 rally observed during the migrations, and although it occasional! v 

 breeds in the Middle States its skill in concealing its nest has defied 

 the search of oologists. It is a quieter, more dignified bird than thn 

 Spotted Sandpiper, and as a rule only utters its "low, whistling notes" 

 when flushed. 



258. Symphemia .semipalmata (fJmeJ.}. WU.I.KT. Ad. in mm- 

 mer. Upper parts brownish irray. tlie head and neek streaked, and the back 

 barred with black, and sometimes huffy, the centers of the feathers being oc- 

 casionally wholly black: basal half of the primaries and greater part of sec- 

 ondaries white ; upper tail-e<>verts white with a few blackish bars; central 

 tail-feathers ashy, indistinctly barred with Mm-kith ; outer ones whitish, lightly 



