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in Labrador were shot in the beginning of August, and 

 were all young birds, apparently about to take their de- 

 parture. My drawing of the two individuals represented 

 in my plate was made at St. Augustine in East Florida, 

 where I procured them on the 2nd of December, 1831. 

 They search for food along the margins of pools, creeks, 

 and rivers, or by the edges of sand-bars." 



Carl Holboell includes this species in his Fauna of 

 Greenland. 



I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Audubon for the 

 only specimen of this Sandpiper I possess, and from which 

 the drawing at the head of this subject and the following 

 description were taken. The bird I believe to have been 

 killed in spring. The beak is straight and nearly black ; 

 the irides brown ; the top of the head and back of the 

 neck ash brown, streaked with dusky ; scapulars and fea- 

 thers of the back ash brown, some assuming a deep black 

 colour in the centre and becoming rufous on the edges ; 

 wing-coverts ash brown, edged with greyish white ; pri- 

 maries dusky black with white shafts ; secondaries dusky 

 brown with minute tips of white ; tertials dusky brown, 

 margined with ash grey ; upper tail-coverts white ; two 

 middle tail-feathers pointed, longer than the others, and 

 dark brown ; the rest ash brown ; chin white ; cheeks, 

 sides of the neck, and upper part of the breast, greyish 

 white, speckled with dusky ; axillary plume white ; belly 

 and under tail-coverts also white ; legs, toes, and claws, 

 almost black, tinged with green. 



The whole length is six inches and a half. From the 

 carpal joint of the wing to the end of the first quill-feather, 

 which is the longest, four inches and three-quarters. 



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