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with numerous black or blackish cross-bars; breast heavily spotted or 

 streaked and sides barred with black; belly white, legs yellow. Ads. and 

 Juv. in winter. Similar, but upperparts brownish gray, the sides of the 

 feathers with whitish spots; tail-bars grayish; breast lightly streaked with 

 ashy. L., 10'75; W., 6'40; Tar., 2'05; B., 1'40. 



Remarks. This bird closely resembles the Greater Yellow-legs in 

 color, but may always be distinguished by its smaller size. 



Range. N. and S. A. Breeds from Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, n. Macken- 

 zie, cen. Keewatin, and s. Ungava to the valley of the Upper Yukon, s. 

 Sask., and n. Que.; winters in Argentina, Chile, and Patagonia, and 

 casually in Mex., Fla., and the Bahamas; in migration occurs mainly e. of 

 the Rocky Mts. (rare in spring on the Atlantic coast), aruHn the Pribilof 

 Islands, Greenland, and Bermuda; accidental in Great Britain. 



Washington, rather common T. V., Mch. to May 15; Aug.-Oct. Long 

 Island, T. V., very rare in spring, abundant in fall; July 15-Oct. 1. Ossining, 

 tolerably common T. V., in fall; Aug. 25-Oct. 5. Cambridge, rare T. V., 

 May; Aug. 4-Sept. 15. N. Ohio, common T. V., Apl. 20-May 15; Sept. 1- 

 Oct. 30. Glen Ellyn, quite regular, Apl. 15-May 19; July 6-Oct. 17. SE. 

 Minn., common T. V., Apl. 7; Aug. 23-Oct. 11. 



Eggs, 3-4, buffy (variable as to shade), distinctly (sometimes broadly) 

 spotted or blotched with dark madder- or vandyke-brown and purplish 

 gray, 1*69 x 1*15 (Ridgw.). Date, Ft. Anderson, Mack., June 5. 



This species closely resembles the preceding in notes, habits, and 

 choice of haunts. It decoys, however, more easily, and, generally 

 speaking, is more common. 



The EUROPEAN RED-SHANK (Totanus totanus} has been once recorded 

 from Hudson Bay (Coues, Auk, XIV, 1897, 211). 



256. Helodromas solitarius solitarius (Wils.). SOLITARY SAND- 

 PIPER. Ads. in summer. Upperparts olive-fuscous, with a slight greenish 

 tinge, head and neck streaked and back spotted with white; upper tail- 

 coverts fuscous, with fine whitish spots on their sides, lateral ones sometimes 

 barred; central pair of tail-feathers fuscous, the others white, barred with 

 black; breast streaked, and sides sometimes barred with black; belly white; 

 axillars barred with black and white; legs greenish fuscous. Ads. and Jiir. 

 in winter. Similar, 

 but upperparts gray- 

 ish brown; head and 

 neck generally un- 

 streaked, and back 



only lightly spotted 

 with buffy white; 

 breast streaked with 



-^'rp '' FIG. 82. Inner view of wing of Solitary Sandpiper, 



1-9O-T' 1*1 A showing barred axillars. 



Range. N. and S. A. Summers from cen. Keewatin, n. Ungava, and 

 N. F. s. to Nebr., 111., Ind., Ohio, and Pa.; probably breeds regularly in the 

 n. part of its range, locally and casually in the s. part; winters from the 

 West Indies to Argentina; recorded from Greenland, Bermuda, and Great 

 Britain. 



Washington, common T. V., Apl.-May 25; July 25-Nov. Long Island, 

 common T. V., May; July 15-Oct. 1. Ossining, common T. V., May 3-30; 

 Aug. 27-Oct. 2. Cambridge, common T. V., May 12-23; Aug. 10-Sept. 30. 

 N. Ohio, tolerably common in summer, Apl. 20-Sept. 15. Glen Ellyn, fairly 

 common T. V., Apl. 8-May 31; July 16-Oct. 6. SE. Minn, common T. V., 

 Apl. 28; July 23-Oct. 4. 



Nest, lays in the abandoned nests of such tree-building birds as the 



