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KEY TO THE BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



Tringa maculata. 

 Tail and upper tail covert? 



Pectoral Sandpiper. 



Bill, nearly straight ; bacK, marked with tawny and black : 

 breast with numerous narrow, brown streaks ; none of inner 

 secondaries almost entirely white ; lower rump 

 and upper tail coverts, black ; the feather- 5 

 more or less tipped \\ith huiT : two middle 

 tail feathers longer than the others. 



Tringa maculata. Pectoral Sandpiper. 

 Grass Bird. 



See No. 193. 



Tringa maculata. 



Bill, nearly straight; back, dark; feathers, 

 edged with ashy or buff; breast, grayish, without 

 brown streaks; one or more of inner secondaries 

 almost entirely white; legs and feet, yellow in life, 

 pale brown in dried skin. 



Tringa maritima. Purple Sandpiper. 

 See No. 192. 



Purple Sandpiper. 



Section 5. Toes, four, without web; bill, under 1.10. 



Upper tail coverts, white ; inner webs 

 of primaries, not speckled. 

 Tringa fuscicollis. 



White-rumped Sandpiper. 



See No. 194. 



Tringa fuscicollis. 



Tringa faecicoUte. 



