SHORE BIRDS 



Grayish buff. 



247. WESTERN SANDPIPER. Ereunetes mauri. 



Range. Western North America, breeding in 

 the Arctic regions and migrating through the 

 United States, chiefly west of the Mississippi to 

 the Gulf States and southward. 



Scarcely to be distinguish- 

 ed from the preceding spe- 

 cies, but the upper parts are 

 said to be brighter and the 

 bill, to average a trifle long- 

 er. The nesting habits and 

 eggs are precisely the same 

 as those of the Semipalmated 

 variety. Data. Cape Prince 

 of Wales, Alaska, June 28, 1898. Four eggs. Nest 

 a neatly rounded hollow, sunk into a mossy hum- 

 mock in marshy ground. Collector, Joseph Grin- 

 nell. 



248. SANDERLING. Calidris leucophaea. 



Range. Found in all parts of the northern hem- 

 isphere, breeding within the Arctic Circle and 

 wintering in North America, from California and 

 South Carolina southward. 



A handsome and abundant species, found dur- 

 ing migrations by thousands on beaches and about 

 large bodies of water in the interior. They are 

 one of the lightest colored of the Sandpipers, 

 either in winter or summer plumage. In summer 

 the upper parts are a light rusty color and black, 

 and the whole underparts are white. Owing to 

 their extreme northerly distribution in summer, 

 but few of their eggs have been taken. Their 

 nesting habits are like those of the other Sandpip- 

 ers. The three or four eggs are greenish buff in 

 color, spotted and blotched with brown. Size 1.45 x 

 Alaska, June 18, 1897. Three eggs in a depression on 



Western Sandpiper. 



Sanderling-. 

 Marbled Godwit. 



.95. Data. Peel River, 

 the ground. 



249. MARBLED GODWIT. Limosa fedoa. 



Range. North America, breeding, chiefly in the interior, from northern 

 United States northward. 



Godwits are large Plovers with long slightly upcurved bills. This species 

 is 19 inches in length, is of a nearly uniform ruddy color and is handsomely 

 marbled above, and barred below with black. Their eggs are laid upon the 

 ground in the vicinity of ponds or rivers; sometimes there is no lining and 

 again a few straws or grasses may be twisted around the depression. Their 

 eggs number three or four and have a ground color of grayish or greenish buff, 

 sometimes quite dark, and are blotched with dark brown. Size 2.25 x 1.60. 

 Data. Devil's Lake, N. D., June 10, 1895. Four eggs laid on the ground in the 

 middle of an un-used road. Lined with a few grasses. Collector, W. F. Hill. 



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