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Peninsula, India, Coylon, Persia, and Mesopotamia. To the British Isles it is a rare migrant 

 on passage, usually met with in autumn on our south and south-east coasts. [F. c. R. j.] 



BUFFBREASTED-SANDPIPER |/v//,/m subnifia',11 ;* (Vieillot) ; Erolia subrufictilis 

 (Vieilloti: '/'/<//<</'/''' rnf> WIIM (Vieillot)]. 



1. Description. Distinguished by the inner webs of the primaries and secondaries, 

 which are always marbled with black and white. Length 8 in. [203 mm.]. General colour of 

 the upper parts black striated with buff; primaries and their coverts brown tipped with white, 

 submarginally with black, the inner webs being freckled and marked with black, secondaries 

 similarly marked, but the white colour predominating; middle tail feathers brownish black ; 

 outer tail feathers brown, tipped with white, submarginally barred with black ; eyebrow, sides 

 <>f face, and the general colour of the under parts buff with slight margins of white; upper 

 breast sometimes spotted with black; under wing-coverts and axillaries white; inner web of 

 primary quills below marbled with black and white; iris hazel; bill dull olive-green, dusky 

 towards the tip; legs and feet dull yellowish green. The adult female is similar, but the 

 black marblings on the primaries not so distinct, [w. p. p. and T. w.] 



2. Distribution. Breeds in Arctic North America from Point Barrow in N. Alaska, the 

 Barren grounds east of the Wilmot Horton River to Repulse Bay in the south of Melville Penin- 

 sula, and Herschel Island. It is also said to be resident in British Columbia. E. W. Nelson 

 also describes it as common near Cape Wankarem in East Siberia in August. On migration 

 it passes through North America and winters in South America (Peru, Uruguay, and Argen- 

 tina). As a casual it has been recorded from Heligoland and Switzerland, and has occurred 

 about eighteen times in the British Isles. [F. c. R. J.] 



SEMIPALMATED-SANDPIPER [Ereunetes pusillus (Linnaeus) ; Tringa pusilla (Linnseus)]. 



1. Description. Recognised by its very flat bill, the tip of which is more or less spatulate. 

 The male and female are alike in plumage, excepting that the female lacks the red colour on the 

 upper parts. Total length 6 in. [152 mm.]. General colour of the upper parts black with 

 reddish brown margins to the feathers of the back and scapulars ; lower back smoky brown, 

 becoming blacker on the rump and longer upper tail-coverts ; under surface of the body white, 

 streaked and spotted on the throat and chest with black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 white. The adult in winter lacks the rufous and black markings of the upper surface, these 

 parts having an almost uniform brownish grey appearance. Iris dark brown ; bill black ; feet 

 greenish olive, [w. p. p. and T. w.] 



2. Distribution. Breeds in Arctic North America from the mouth of the Yukon in the 

 west to the Barren grounds, possibly in N. Saskatchewan, South Ungava, the Hudson Bay 

 region, and the Labrador coast. It is only of casual occurrence in E. Siberia, and migrates 

 south through North America, chiefly east of the Rocky Mountains, and winters from Texas 

 and Carolina through the West Indies and Central America to Patago-nia. In South-west 

 Alaska it is said to be replaced by an allied race, which migrates in winter south to Florida, 

 Carolina, Trinidad, and South America. One specimen of the eastern form has occurred in 

 England (Kent, September 1907). [F. c. R. J.] 



BARTRAM'S SANDPIPER [Bartrdmia longicauda (Bechstein). Upland-plover, field-plover. 

 German, Bartram's Uferldufer ; Italian, piro-piro coda lunga]. 



1. Description. Recalls the ruff, in winter, in its general appearance, but is at once distin- 

 guished by the long, closely barred, wedge-shaped tail, and the forward continuation of the 

 feathers of the throat along the lower jaw. Length 11 in. [279 mm.]. No very striking 



