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ly streaked with dusky and tinged with yellowish red ; white 

 beneath with sides of head, lower neck, and breast tinged 

 with ashy and streaked with dusky; bill, brown ; feet, green- 



Fig. 01. 



ish, fig. 91. Winter, 

 differs in having no 

 reddish above and 

 fewer streaks beneath. 

 Young, differ in having 

 many of t h e feathers 

 above tipped with rus- 

 ty and some buff tinge- 

 ing on breast. Note, a 

 short, sharp whistle. 

 Fl i ght ordinary. Oc- 

 curs on both beach and 

 salt marsh; unsus- 

 picious birds which are 

 sometimes found G- t D, 2. 1-4. 



in small flocks by themselves, or often in company with other 

 sandpipers. Eastern N. A. breeding far north ; migrates 

 south in Sep. and Oct. but sometimes specimens occur earlier 

 or later in N. E. ; winters in southern S. A. casually as far 

 north as Fla. 



3. COOPER'S SANDPIPER, A. COOPERI. Differs from 

 4 in being larger ( 9.50 ), in having only a trace of reddish 

 on the longer scapularies, plate 71, and in having conspicu- 

 ous Y-shaped marks on upper tail coverts. Only a single 

 specimen known, obtained on Long Island, N. Y., May 24, 

 1833. 



4. BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, A. BAIRDII. Somewhat sim- 

 ilar to 1, differs in being smaller ( 7.25 ), in having a weaker 

 bill, ( .95 ), plate 8, B, in being much paler above, and in 

 having fewer streakings on the breast below. The young 

 have all of the feathers above very narrowly margined with 

 pale grayish-buff conspicuous enough to give the back a scaled 

 appearance. Note, not very unlike 1. Flight, much as in 



