BIRDS OF NEW YORK 3II 



Pisobia fuscicoUis (Vieillot) 



(Actodromas fuscicollis on plate) 



White-rumped Sandpiper 



Plate 35 



Tringa fuscicollis Vieillot. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 1819 34:461 

 Tringa schinzi DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 241, fig. 191 

 Tringa fuscicollis A. 0. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 240 



juscicdl'lis, Lat, fuscus, dusky, and collum, neck 



Description. A small sandpiper with the general appearance of 

 A. maculata, but smaller and the upper tail coverts white, and the 

 edgings of the upper parts more rufous, and the sides more distinctly streaked. 

 Winter plumage: Upper parts plain ashy or brownish gray, often showing 

 patches of the black and rufous of the summer plumage. Young: Resem- 

 ble summer adults, but less distinctly marked, and the edgings of the upper 

 feathers more rusty and whitish. 



Length 6.75-8 inches; extent 15-16. 5; wing 4.85-5; tail 1.8-1.9; tarsus 

 .95-1 ; bill .9-1. 



The White-rumped, Bonaparte, or Schinz sandpiper is a fairly common 

 migrant in the fall on the coast of Long Island, arriving from July 4th to 

 August 15th, and disappearing from the ist to the 30th of October. On 

 inland lakes and rivers it is less common, though a regular migrant in western 

 New York. Eighteen specimens from the central lakes were taken on dates 

 ranging from September 20th to November 4th; several from Lake Ontario 

 between September 10 and October 16; one from Putnam county in October 

 1889 [Meade]; one from Albany county, October 25, 1884 [Parks]; one from 

 Seneca river, October 13, 1906 [Fuertes]. Todd in his Birds of Erie, Pa., 

 records a number of specimens, the dates ranging from August 29 to October 

 23, and two were taken on June 4th, 1875, by Mr Sennett, which is the only 

 spring record that I have seen for the vicinity of New York State. 



This is a species of eastern America breeding within the arctic circle, 

 and wintering from the West Indies to South America and the Falkland 

 islands. It resembles the Pectoral sandpiper in habits, but is more often 

 fotmd on the sandy shore, in this respect and in the plain gray of its winter 

 plumage and in the white of its rump suggesting a diminutive Knot. It is 

 more gentle, however, and often allows one to approach within a few feet, 

 but when startled dashes swiftly away with a sharp weet, weet. 



