150 SHOKE BIRDS. 



coverts, white banded with dusky; pale cin- 

 namon beneath narrowly streaked on breast 

 and banded on sides with dusky, fig. Ill; 

 bill, brown; feet, greenish. Winter silvery 

 gray above ; white beneath tinged with 

 yellowish. Young differs from winter in 



Fig. 120 



Sanderlin^. 1-4. 



being without the yellowship tinge below. 

 Note, a clear, double whistle not loud nor 

 often given in migration. Occurs on sandy 

 beaches in small flocks, by itself or singly 

 in company with other beach birds. North- 

 ern Hemisphere, breeding far north; goes 



