140 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



between the 7th and 21st/ half a mile south of Cedar Creek, Barnegat 

 Bay; the other, September 8th, 1899, one and a half miles north of 

 Toms River, on the west shore of the Bay. 



263 Actitis macularia (Linnaeus). 

 Spotted Sandpiper. 



PLATE 23. 



Adults in summer. Length, 7-8. Wing, 4.10-4.60. Above, grayish-brown, 

 with a slight bronze gloss ; feathers mottled with black ; tail, narrowly tipped 

 with white; outer feathers more or less obscurely barred with black*; lower 

 parts, white, everywhere marked with round black spots smaller on the throat. 



In autumn. Plain bronze-brown above and white beneath, slightly tinged 

 with gray on the chest. 



Young in first summer and autumn. Similar to winter adults, but feathers 

 of upper parts edged with buff and dusky. 



Nest a mere hollow on the ground; eggs, three to four, olive-buff, spotted 

 with dark brown and purplish, 1.35 x .90. 



Common summer resident, nesting throughout the State wherever 

 conditions are favorable, even along the coast marshes. 



Arrives April 20th to 25th; departs October 1st. 



Mr. Babson 2 saw one at Princeton as late as November 1st. 



The most widely distributed and most familiar of our Sandpipers 

 and almost the only one now breeding in the State. It may be seen 

 running along the mud flats of our rivers and creeks, now taking wing 

 and circling out over the water to alight again a little further on, 

 every now and then uttering its clear whistle or series of short whistles. 

 It nests often quite well away from the water in a grass field or even 

 in a garden, and the downy young can later be found running about 

 with their parents. 



264 Numenius americanus Bechstein. 

 Long-billed Curlew, Sicklebill. 



Adults. Length, 20-25. Wing, 10-11. Above, black and buff; head and 

 neck streaked, other parts barred ; below, cinnamon-buff, streaked on the breast 

 with dusky ; axillars, nearly plain cinnamon. 



1 Abst. Proc. D. V. O. C., III., p. 12. Specimen in D. V. O. C. Colin. 



2 Birds of Princeton, p. 44. 



