SANDPIPERS. 161 



with breast tinged with ashy. Young show 

 traces of rufous. Upper tail coverts, bill 

 and feet always black. A very unsuspicious 

 species that occurs on sandy beaches more 

 often than elsewhere, sometimes singly but 

 more often in flocks or in company with 



Fig. 131 



Hudsonian Curlew. 1-8. ' 



other Shore Birds, call, a rather plaintive, 

 melodious Purre; when alarmed utters a 

 short cackling cry. N. A. breeding far 

 north; goes south from Sept. to Nov.; winters 

 from N.C. southward; north in May. Abund- 

 ant on Atlantic coast in fall but rather un- 

 common in spring north of N. C. 



