LEAST SANDPIPER 



242. Pisobia minutilla. 6 in. 



Smallest of our sandpipers. Upperparts blackish, 

 edged with bright chestnut; breast and sides ashy-gray, 

 conspicuously streaked with dusky. 



Notes. A musical whistle, " peet-weet." 



Nest. A grass lined hollow: eggs grayish, heavily 

 blotched with blackish brown (1.15x.80). 



Range. Breeds from Nova Scotia and northern Brit- 

 ish Columbia northward; winters from the Gulf States 

 and California southward. 



SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER 

 246. Ereunetes pusillus. 6.25 in. 



Feet with small webs between the toes at their base. 

 Similar in size and form to the Least Sandpiper, but 

 the upper parts are not as bright rusty, and the breast 

 is only faintly streaked with dusky. 



Range. Breeds from Labrador northward. 



247. WESTERN SANDPIPER (E. mauri) is very 

 similar; more rusty above, with stronger markings. 



