146 



SHORE BIRDS. 



spots on salt marshes and sloughs, singly or 

 in flocks, some of which are very large. 

 When feeding probes with bill by pushing 

 it straight downward often putting its head 

 under water. Tame and easily approached. 

 Eastern N. A. breeding far north, passes 



Fig. 11(5 



Red-backed Sandpiper. 



south chiefly along the coast in July and 

 Aug. Winters from N. C. to the W. 1. and 

 Brazil; north in May; abundant at this 

 season in the Bahamas but not as common 

 further north. 



