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grayish-brown above, mixed with chestnut on the back ; ring 

 around the neck and stripes down the sides of it, chestnut; 

 tips of the wing-coverts and under parts, white, the sides 

 tinged with grayish or reddish; feet, lobed. It breeds in 

 Northern North America, migrating into the United States 

 in winter. The Red Phalarope (P. fulicarius), 7.75 long, 

 has the under parts purplish-chestnut of varying shades, 

 white in young; the upper parts variegated with black and 

 light red. Its feet are lobed, and the bill stout and flat 

 It winters in the south, spending the summer in the arctics. 



The Stilt Sandpiper (Micropalama himantopus) is 8.50 long; 

 legs long, and the bill sometimes bent upward ; blackish, 

 marked with tawny and white, above; ear-patches, chestnut; 

 line from the bill to the eye, dusky; eye-brows, reddish; 

 upper tail-coverts, white, barred with dusky; under parts, 

 reddish, marked with black and whitish. It winters in the 

 West Indies, and passes through the United States, gener- 

 ally, to its breeding grounds in the far north. 



Baird's Sandpiper (Tringa batrdt), about the color of the 

 Least Sandpiper, but an inch or two longer, is rare in 

 Eastern North America. 



The White-rum ped, or Bonaparte's Sandpiper {Tringa 

 bonapartci}, about the size of the former, and about the color 

 of the Pectoral Sandpiper, except the black bill and feet 

 and the white rump, belongs to Eastern North America, and 

 is common on the Atlantic in the migrations. 



The Red-backed Sandpiper (Tringa alpina var. americand), 

 8.50 long, with bill slightly bent down near the tip, is known 

 by its red back, mottled with white and black, and its black 

 patch on the belly, in summer; in winter, and in the young, 

 the upper parts are ashy-gray, the under parts white. It is 

 a common migrant on the coast and in the interior of East- 

 ern North America. 



