152 



SHORE BIRDS. 



ish; bill dark brown, orange at base; feet, 

 greenish yellow, fig. 109; winter and young 

 with dark upper parts obscured with gray- 

 ish which is more extended below; upper 

 tail coverts and rump black in all stages. 

 Note, a feeble whistle. Northern portion 



Fig. 122 



Solitary Sandpiper. 1-4. 



of Northern Hemisphere, breeding far north; 

 migrating south in N. A. in Oct.; appearing 

 on the coast of N. E. about Nov. 1. Winters 

 from Canada, south to the Great Lakes and 

 upper Mississippi Valley and on the Atlantic 

 coast locally from Grand Menan to the south 

 shore of N. E., more rarely to N. J. and 



