KEY TO THE SHORE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



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GROUP IV. 

 Birds having wings from 5.50 to 6.75 inches long. 



Section 1. Toes, 4, a small web between outer and middle 

 toe; bill, over 1.80. 



Upper tail coverts and axillars, white, spotted or barred 

 with dusky ; bill, nearly straight. 



Red=breasted Snipe, or Dowitcher. 



Mwrorhamphus yriseus, 



and 



Western Red=breasted Snipe, or, Long-billed Dowitcher. 



Mcicrorhfi mphtts scolopaceus, 

 Muerorhainphus jrrisous. See page 41. 



Section 2. Toes, 4, a small web between outer and middle 

 toe; bill, under 1.80. 



Tarsus and middle toe together, more than 2.60 inches 

 long ; outer primary, slate brown, without bars. Rump 

 and upper tail coverts, white, more or less barred 

 with brown; legs, yellow. 



Summer Yellow=Ieg. 

 Totanus flavipes. 

 See page 58. 



Totaling flavipes. 



Tarsus and middle toe, together, less than 2.60 ; outer primary, slaty brown ; rump 

 and upper tail coverts, plumbeous gray; axillars, slaty gray, without bands. 

 This species does not occur in Eastern United States. 



Wandering Tattler. 

 Heteractitis incanns. 

 See page 61 . 



Tarsus and middle toe, together, less than 2.60 ; upper tail coverts, white or white 

 barred with black; outer primary, slate brown, without bars. 



Stilt Sandpiper. 

 Micropalama himantopits. 



Outer primary, whitish, barred with dark brown. 



See page 42. 



Bartramian Sandpiper. 

 " Upland Plover." 



Bartramia longicanda. 

 See page 64. 



