244 SNIPES AND SANDPIPERS 



B. Wing under 5*75. 



a. Underparts white, with numerous round blackish spots; upper- 

 parts brownish gray, barred with blackish. 



263. SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 



/ Underparts white, breast streaked with blackish; upperparts fus- 

 cous, spotted with white . . . 256. SOLITARY SANDPIPER. 



c. Underparts tinged with buffy, inner web of outer primary speckled 



with blackish 262. BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 



d. Underparts white, breast washed with grayish, inner primaries 



and secondaries with a concealed white patch. 



263. SPOTTED SANDPIPER (Im.). 

 2. Tail without cross-bars. 



A. Toes 4. 



a. Bill over I'lO. 



a 1 . Middle upper tail-coverts with cross-bars or streaks. 



a 2 . Tarsus over 1*50 233. STILT SANDPIPER. 



a 3 . Tarsus under 1'50, wing under 6*00 244. CURLEW SANDPIPER. 



a 4 . Tarsus under 1*50, wing over 6*00 234. KNOT. 



6 1 . Middle upper tail-coverts without cross-bars or streaks. 



6 2 . Middle upper tail-coverts black or fuscous, without bars; bill 

 straight. 



6 3 . Tarsus under 1*50; upperparts blackish, more or less mar- 



gined with gray 235. PURPLE SANDPIPER. 



6 4 . Tarsus under 1'50; upperparts more or less margined with 



rufous 239. PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 



. Tarsus over 1'50 . . . 260. RUFF. 



c 2 . Middle upper tail-coverts grayish, bill curved slightly down- 

 ward 243o. RED-BACKED SANDPIPER. 



6. Bill under I'lO. 

 fe 1 . Wing under 4'00. 



6 2 . Toes partly webbed. 



246. SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. 247. WESTERN SANDPIPER. 



6 3 . Toes not webbed 242. LEAST SANDPIPER. 



c 1 . Wing over 4*00. 



c 2 . Inner webs of primaries plain. 



c 3 . Breast white or whitish, streaked or spotted with blackish; 

 middle upper tail-coverts white . 



240. WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER. 



c 4 . Breast buffy, heavily spotted or streaked with blackish ; mid- 

 dle upper tail-coverts black, slightly margined with rufous. 

 239. PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 



c 6 . Breast buffy lightly spotted or streaked with black; middle 

 upper tail-coverts fuscous, lightly margined with buffy. 



241. BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. 

 d 2 . Inner webs of primaries speckled. 



262. BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 



B. Toes 3 248. SANDERLING. 



228. Philohela minor (Gmel). AMERICAN WOODCOCK. (PL VIII. Figs. 

 11, 15.) Ads. Front of crown slaty, washed with buff, an indistinct black- 

 ish line in its center, and another from eye to bill ; back of head black, with 

 two or three bars of ochraceous-buff; rest of upperparts black, mar- 

 gined with slaty and barred and mottled with rufous or ochraceous-buff; tip 

 of tail ashy gray above, silvery beneath; Underparts between ochraceous 

 buff and rufous; outer three primaries very narrow and much stiffened. 

 L., ll'OO; W., 5'40; Tar., 1'25; B., 2'90. 



Range. E. N. Am. Breeds r.-om ne. N. D., s. Man., n. Mich., s. Que. 

 and N. S. s. to s. Kans., s. La., and n. Fla.; winters from s. Mo., the Ohio 

 Valley, and s. N. J. (rarely Mass.) s. to Tex. and s. Fla.; ranges casually to 

 Bask., Keewatin, Colo., N. F., and Bermuda. 



