250 SNIPES AND SANDPIPERS 



ochraceous-buff; rump and upper tail-coverts black, lightly tipped with 

 ochraceous-buff; middle tail-feathers longest, pointed and margined with 

 buffy; outer tail-feathers brownish gray, narrowly margined with white; 

 throat white, neck and breast heavily streaked with black and buffy; rest of 

 underparts white. Ads. and Juv. in winter. Similar, but ochraceous-buff 

 of upperparts replaced by rufous, and breast heavily washed with buffy. L. 

 9-00; W., 5'40; Tar., I'lO; B., 1'15. 



Remarks. This bird somewhat resembles both P. fuscicollis and P. 

 bairdi, but it differs from them in its larger size, black instead of white or 

 fuscous upper tail-coverts, and longer, more pointed middle tail-feathers. 



Range. N. and S. A. Breeds on the Arctic coast from n. Alaska to 

 mouth of Yukon and ne. Mackenzie; winters in S. A. from Peru and Bolivia 

 to n. Chile, Argentina, and cen. Patagonia ; in migration very rare on Pacific 

 coast south of B. C., except in L. Calif.; common in fall migration in Miss. 

 Valley and on the Atlantic coast, rare in spring; casual in ne. Siberia, Un- 

 alaska, and Greenland; accidental in Hawaii and England. 



Washington, common T. V., Apl.; Aug. 23-Oct. 22. Long Island, T. V., 

 rare in May, common from July 15 to Nov. 1. Ossining, rare T. V., Sept. 

 10-Oct. 16. Cambridge, uncommon T. V., Oct. 5-20. N. Ohio, common 

 T. V., Apl. 1-May 5. Glen Ellyn, common T. V., Apl. 4-May 10; Aug. 5- 

 Sept. 28. SE. Minn., common T. V., Apl. 23; Sept. 15. 



Eggs, 4, drab, sometimes with a greenish tinge, blotched with clear 

 umber-brown markings, more numerous at the larger end, 1*50 x 1*09 (Mur- 

 doch). Date, Pt. Barrow, June 18. 



The names Grass Snipe and Krieker describe with equal truth and 

 conciseness the haunts and notes of this Snipe. It frequents wet, 

 grassy meadows rather than beaches, and, although it flies in flocks, 

 the birds scatter while feeding and take wing one or more at a time. 

 They thus remind one of Wilson's Snipe. Their note is a squeaky, 

 grating whistle. They will respond to an imitation of it, but do not 

 decoy so readily as the larger Bay Birds. Mr. E. W. Nelson writes 

 that during the breeding season the male inflates its breast and throat 

 until they are double their normal size, and utters a deep, hollow, reso- 

 nant note. (Rep. on Nat. Hist. Coll. made in Alaska, p. 108.) 



240. Pisobia fuscicollis (Vieill.*). WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER. Ads. in 

 summer. Upperparts black, edged with rufous; rump grayish fuscous, mar- 

 gined with ashy; longer upper tail-coverts white, with sometimes brownish 

 gray markings; central tail-feathers fuscous, outer ones brownish gray, upper 

 throat white; neck, breast, and sides distinctly streaked and spotted with 

 black and more or less washed with ochraceous-buff. Ads. and Juv. in winter. 

 "Upperparts plain brownish gray, with indistinct, narrow mesial streaks 

 of dusky; otherwise as in summer, but streaks on chest, etc., less distinct" 

 (Ridgw.). Juv. Similar to summer examples, but the feathers of the upper- 

 parts with rounded whitish or ochraceous-buff tips; breast less distinctly 

 streaked. L., 7'50; W., 4'90; Tar., '90; B., '95. 



Remarks. The white upper tail-coverts distinguish this species. 



Range. N. and S. A. Breeds along the Arctic coast from nw. Mack- 

 enzie to Cumberland Is. ; has occurred in summer w. to Point Barrow and e. to 

 Greenland; winters from Paraguay to s. Patagonia and the Falkland Islands; 

 in migration most abundant in the Miss. Valley, less so on the Atlantic 

 coast; casual in Bermuda, Great Britain, the West Indies, and Cen. Am. 



Long Island, not uncommon, T. V., July 20-Oct. 10. Ossining, casual 

 T. V., Sept. N. Ohio, casual T. V. 



Eggs, 3-4, light olive, or olive brownish, spotted (usually rather finely) 

 with deep brown and dull, purplish gray, 1*37 X *94 (Ridgw.). Date, Herschel 

 Is., June 10 (Thayer Coll.). 



