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and treated alike that is, they are tied in bunches by the neck 

 or legs and handed over to be prepared for the table. With the 

 collector it is different : every individual is carefully examined as to 

 species, sex, age and condition, so that nothing may be lost that is 

 worth preserving. In the present species, the white rump is always a 

 distinguishing mark, most conspicuous while the birds are on the 

 wing. Inland it is not very common, but a few are usually seen 

 associating with the others during the season of migration. The 

 pair in my collection I found on the sandy shore of Lake Ontario 

 near the Burlington Canal. 



It is an eastern species, with a long range north and south. It is 

 very abundant on the shores of New England during the season of 

 migration. 



Inland it is found in Ontario, Manitoba and the North- West, but 

 only in small flocks while migrating. It does not appear west of the 

 Rocky Mountains, and only one or two stragglers have been found in 

 Alaska. It is said to breed abundantly in the Mackenzie River 

 region, and it was found by McFarlane breeding on the shores of 

 the Arctic Sea. As winter approaches it moves south through the 

 United States to the West Indies, Central and South America and 

 the Falkland Islands. Stragglers have also been found in Europe. 



TRINGA BAIRDII (COUES). 

 100. Baird's Sandpiper. (241) 



Adult male: Bill, wholly black, small and slender, slightly shorter than 

 the head, just as long as the tarsus, or as the middle toe and claw, slightly 

 expanded or lancet-shaped at the end, the point acute ; grooves, long, narrow, 

 deep; feathers on the side of lower mandible evidently reaching further than 

 those on upper. Upper parts, brownish-black (deepest on the rump and middle 

 upper tail coverts, and lightest on the neck behind), each feather bordered and 

 tipped with pale brownish -yellow, the tipping of the scapulars broadest and 

 nearly white, their marginings broad and brightest in tint, making several deep 

 scallops toward the shafts of the feathers ; only the outer series black, the others 

 plain gray, with paler margins; jugulum, tinged with light, dull yellowish- 

 brown, spotted and streaked with ill- defined blackish markings, as are also the 

 sides under the wings ; throat and other under parts, white, unmarked ; feet, 

 black, like the bill. Length, 7.25; extent, 15.25; wing, 4.90; bill, 0.85; tarsus, 

 middle toe and claw, the same. The female is entirely similar, but slightly 

 larger. The young have the upper parts wholly light brownish-ash, darker on 

 the rump, and all the feathers with a dark field, and pale or whitish edging ; 



