PURPLE SANDPIPER 



235. Arquatella maritima. 9 in. 



Upper parts blackish, margined with buffy; breast 

 and sides slaty purple. In winter, blackish, without 

 the rusty edging to the feathers. These dark colored 

 little sandpipers prefer bold rocky coasts. 



Notes. A loud, shrill whistle. 



Nest. A hollow in the ground, among grass and 

 weeds, lined with a few grasses; eggs grayish buff, 

 handsomely splashed with various shades of brown. 



Range. Breeds from northern Labrador and the 

 mouth of Hudson Bay northward ; winters south to 

 Long Island Sound and the Great Lakes. 



PECTORAL SANDPIPER 



239. Pisobia macula t a. 9 in. 



Crown and back blackish, strongly edged with red- 

 dish-brown; an ashy-gray wash on the breast, with nu- 

 merous streaks of blackish. Well known and called by 

 a great variety of names, of which Jack Snipe and 

 Grass Snipe are probably the most common. 



Range. Breeds in the Arctic regions; migrates 

 through the U. S. to South America. 



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