DIRECTORY TO BIRDS OF EASTERX NORTH AMERICA. 8& 



head, black, Breeds through eastern and central N. A. from 



Fig. 98. 



Penn. north to Quebec 

 in suitable places. 

 The call, note is very 

 musical and bubbling 

 and is almost invaria- 

 bly given as the bird 

 flies. I not infrequent- 

 ly hear it here in New- 

 ton as the bird flies 

 over my house during 

 migrations, sometimes 

 in th e n i g h t ; if d i s- 

 turbed when breeding O, D, n, 1. 1-6. 



it utters harsher cries ; and when alighting emits a chuckling 

 sound. Frequents the hill tops near the coast especially in 

 the autumn, but sometimes occurs on the marshes both in 

 N. E. and further south ; goes south in Sep. to winter in 

 northern S. A. ; comes north in April and May. 



o. Buffy Sandpipers. Tryngites. 



Rather small, slender sandpipers with shorter tails than 

 in n, and with bill more slender, otherwise quite similar. 



1. BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, T. SUBRUFICOLLIS. 



Fig. 99. 



1-3. 



8.00; bill, .80; grayish- 

 buff above mixed with 

 blackish ; buff beneath 

 somewhat spotted on 

 breast with duskv ; ax- 

 illaries, whit e, show- 

 ing in flight ; lining of 

 wing and inner webs 

 of primaries, white, 

 marbled with dusky. 

 Young, differ in hav- 

 ing the feathers bor- 

 dered with whitish. 

 Breeds in the far north- 



