SNIl'KS. SANIIMI'l-:i:s, KTC. Ifil 



white, the side* sometimes spotted with black. L., 8 00 ; W., 4-76 ; Tar., 1-00 ; 

 B^ 1-50. 



Jtmtarb. There U, of course, every degree of inu-rgrwlution between 

 summer and winter plumage, but the species may always b known by iu 

 nightly curved bill. 



v. North America, lii-vcding in tin- un-tic regions and wintering from 

 Florid* south ward : rare in the iiit.ri-r. 



Washington, rare T. V n ApL; Ot. Long Inland, T. V., uncommon in 



Fio. 83. Red-backed Sandpiper. (Natural size.) 



spring, Apl. 1 to May 15; common in fall, Aug. 31 through Oct Sing Sing, 

 tolerably common T. V. in full, Oct. 3 to Oct. 24. Cambridge, casual, one 

 instance, Oct. 



Egg*, three to four, varying from pale, bluish white to ochraceous-buff, 

 heavily marked with chocolate, chiefly at the larger end, 1-43 x 1-01. 



Generally speaking, this is a shore or beach bird, though it also 

 visits grassy marshes. It flies and feeds in flocks, and is an unsus- 

 picious, rather stupid little Snipe, less active than most members of 

 this family. The gray-plumaged fall birds are known as " Leadbacks," 

 while in the spring they go by the names " Blackbreast " or " Redback." 



The Df!Li (f^J. Tringn alpina) in the Old- World representative of our 

 Bed-backed S;m.l],i|>.T. from which it <lit!Vrx only in being less brightly 

 colored and somewhat mull. r. I,., nl>ut 74"; W., 4-12-4-50; Tar., -78-90; 

 B., 1-05-1-Sfi. It is of casual occurrence in North At: 



The CURLEW SANDPIPER ($44- Trinyn ftrrvginta) inhabits the eactern 

 hemisphere, and occurs casually in eastern North America. It has been re- 

 corded from Ontario, Nova Scotia, Maine, Massachusetts, and Long Island. 



246. Ereunetea pusilliu /.'.,>. SKHIPAI.MATF.I> SANDPII-KH 

 OXEVK; PEEP. Ad. in numntr. -t'ppcr |>art black or fiiM-oiix. margined with 

 brownish gray and a tmall amount of rufoux; rump uniyistli ln>\vn; UJUHT 

 its blackish ; tail-feathers brownish gray, central ones darkest ; breast 

 streaked or spotted with blackish. Im. Similar, but upper parts and wing- 

 coverta blackish, with rounded rufous or butfy tips to the feathers ; breast un- 

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