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I have not met with it in the United States excepting in 

 the latter part of autumn and in winter. Those procured 

 in Labrador were shot in the beginning of August, and 

 were all young birds, apparently about to take their de- 

 parture. My drawing of the two individuals represented 

 in my plate was made at St. Augustine in East Florida, 

 where I procured them on the 2nd of December 1831. 

 They search for food along the margins of pools, creeks, 

 and rivers, or by the edges of sand-bars." 



I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Audubon for the 

 only specimen of this Sandpiper I possess, and from which 

 the drawing at the head of this subject and the following 

 description were taken. The bird I believe to have been 

 killed in spring. The beak is straight and nearly black ; 

 the irides brown ; the top of the head and back of the 

 neck ash brown, streaked with dusky ; scapulars and fea- 

 thers of the back ash brown, some assuming a deep black 

 colour in the centre and becoming rufous on the edges ; 

 wing-coverts ash brown edged with greyish white ; pri- 

 maries dusky black with white shafts ; secondaries dusky 

 brown with minute tips of white ; tertials dusky brown 

 margined with ash grey ; upper tail-coverts white ; two 

 middle tail-feathers pointed, longer than the others and 

 dark brown ; the rest ash brown ; chin white ; cheeks, 

 sides of the neck and upper part of the breast greyish 

 white, speckled with dusky ; axillary plume white ; belly 

 and under tail-coverts also white ; legs, toes, and claws, 

 almost black, tinged with green. 



The whole length six inches and a half. From the 

 carpal joint of the wing to the end of the first quill-feather, 

 which is the longest, four inches and three-quarters. 



