40 THE BIRDS OF MONTREAL. 



Subgenus " Actodromas." Kaup. 



70. Pectoral Sandpiper. (Jack Snipe ; Grass Plover.) 



T. maculata. Yieill. 



" Transient Visitant," common. This sandpiper 

 is plentiful here during the autumn till about the 

 middle of October ; and in the month of September 

 they are found in flocks, but do not appear here in 

 the spring of the year. Late in the month of Octo- 

 ber the " Jack Snipe" is met with singly in the 

 grassy swales, and, rising snipe-like on the wing, 

 tempts the sportsman to fire a shot at him when 

 hunting after the real snipe. At other times this 

 sandpiper is so tame that he can almost be poked 

 with the muzzle of a gun before flying away, and 

 often will run on a few feet in front of anyone for 

 some time, without evincing fear. They are very 

 good eating, like all of the sandpipers, but the 

 sportsman has no pleasure in shooting them on ac- 

 count of their tameness. I shot one October 19, 

 1889, at Laprairie, but the bulk migrate south be- 

 fore this date in October. 



71. White-rumped Sandpiper. T. fuscicollis. Vieill. 

 " Transient Visitant," common. I have observed 



small flocks of this species along the river shore, 

 between Laprairie and St. Lambert, during the 

 month of October, and saw sixteen of them killed 

 with a double shot fired into a flock of twenty-one, 



