68 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



Breeds in the Arctic regions, chiefly Alaska; migrates through 

 United States and West Indies to South America as far south as 

 southern Brazil and Chile. 



In Missouri a common transient visitant from March 15 to 

 June 6 and through August, September and October to the 

 middle of November (November 5, 1901, November 14, 1896, 

 November 24, 1900, Keokuk, Currier). Mr. Praeger gives it 

 as abundant at Keokuk from March 28 to April 23, and from 

 August 11 to October 21. Mr. Nehrling reported it as very 

 common during the first half of April in Lawrence Co. The 

 species is said to be common at Independence (Tindall) and at 

 Fayette (Kilpatrick) from March 15 to April 10. Records show 

 that some linger through May and even into June; (May 11, 1882, 

 St. Louis; May 14, 1895, May 16, 1898, May 27, 1901, and June 

 6, 1893, Keokuk). 



240. AcTODROMAS FuscicoLLLS (VieilL). White-rumped Sand- 

 piper. 



Tringa fuscicollis. Tringa schinzii. Tringa bonapartei. Bonaparte's 

 Sandpiper. 



Geog. Dist. — Breeding in Arctic regions, chiefly from Hudson 

 Bay to Mackenzie River; it migrates through United States, 

 mainly east of the Rocky Mountains, West Indies and Central 

 America to South America as far south as Falkland Islands. 



In Missouri formerly a fairly common, now a rather rare, 

 transient visitant late in May and early in June, and again early 

 in autumn. Twenty years ago Mr. Nehrling regarded it a 

 common transient visitant in Lawrence Co., and Mr. Kastendieck 

 collected specimens in 1882 at his mill-pond in Christian Co. 

 Mr. E. S. Currier met with a flock of ten at Sand Ridge, Clark 

 Co., May 16, 1898, and again, June 2, 1901, a flock of eight near 

 the mouth of Des Moines River on a sand-bar. His latest date 

 is June 5, 1894, when the first was seen near KeOkuk, May 22. 

 Mr. E. S. Woodruf!" found a flock of about twelve at Jacks Fork 

 of Current River in Shannon Co., May 15, 1907. 



241. AcTODROMAS BAiRDii Coues. Baird's Sandpiper. 



Tringa bairdii. Bull-peep. 



Geog. Dist. — Breeds from Hudson Bay along Arctic coast to 

 Point Barrow and migrates through the interior of North Amer- 

 ica, rarely along the Atlantic coast, south to Chile and Patagonia. 



