SCOLOPACIDJS. 



Chupat. Near the end of August it begins to arrive in La Plata, usually 

 in very small flocks or singly; and among these first-comers there are 

 some young birds so immature and weak in appearance that one can 



Tail-feathers of PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 

 (Seebohm's ' Plovers,' p. 443.) 



scarcely credit the fact that so soon after being hatched they have 

 actually performed the stupendous journey from the northern extremity 

 of the North- American continent to the Buenos- Ayrean pampas. 



This species differs from other Sandpipers in being much more 

 solitary and sedentary in its ways, feeding for hours in one spot, and 

 in its Snipe-like habit of sitting close when approached and remaining 

 motionless watching the intruder ; also in its language, its low, soft, 

 tremulous cry when flying being utterly unlike the sharp and clicking 

 sounds emitted by other species. During the hot months, when water 

 begins to fail, they occasionally congregate in flocks, sometimes as many 

 as two or three hundred individuals being seen together; but at all times 

 it is more usual to see them in very small flocks or singly. 



400. TRINGA BAIRDI (Cones). 



(BAIRD'S SANDPIPER.) 

 Tringa dorsalis, llurm. La-Plata Reise, ii. p. 503 (Mendoza) ? Tringa bairdi, 



Scl. et &ilv. Ntmfiiwl. p. 145; iid. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 144, et 1873, p. 455 

 (Buenos Ay res) ; Seebohm, Plovers, p. 444. Actodromas bairdi, Baird, 

 ., et Ridyw. Water-B. N. A. i. p. 230. 



