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PR.ECOCIAL GRALLATOllES — LIMICOL.E. 



wiis I'omul ill the collpotion inadc thore by Mr. C. J. Anderson, and carefully 

 idontilied. 



Mr. Nelson regarded tiiis species as, in his experience, a rather \ineonunon migrant 

 in Northeastern Illinois, diirinj; the middle of May, and .again in the last of August 

 and the first of Septenilier. It was generally found in small parties or singly, in 

 company with otiier species of Sandpipers ; hut it was occasionally seen in large 

 flocks. The same writer, in his Notes on tiu' IJirds observed by him on the Jhnnboldt 

 River, near Elko, Nevada, states that several flocks of ]?iiird's Sandpij)er were noticed 

 on the small sandbars along the river, and that a single exanii)le was obtained. 



Dr. tJames ('. Merrill nu'utions tiiat two specimens, both fenudes, were taken by 

 him on the Lower Rio CJraude, Marcii .'50, l.S7(i, on a sandbar in the river. 



This species was found breeding on the Barren (Jrounds, .June 24, by Mr. Mac- 

 F.arl.ane. The nest h.ad been made on the ground in a swampy district, between two 

 sm.all Lakes, and was composed of a few decayed leaves laid loosely in a small hole 

 or depression, shaded by a tuft of grass. The fem.ale bird glided from the nest on 

 being a])proached, passing closely to him, and then fluttered along, drooping her 

 wings .as if woiuuled, endeavoring thus to lead him away from the nest. This was ;i 

 r.are bird in that quarter. The eggs of this species .are usually four in number. 

 One set (S. I. No. 14()Sr>) exhibit the following measvu'ements : 1.40 by .U9, 1..'}") by 

 1.02, 1.32 by .98, .and l.;U by .08. Their ground-c(dor is, a light dr.ab, generally and 

 very uniformly sprinkled with dottings, spots, aiul a few Larger confluent blotches of 

 a bright sepia brown. These are occasionallj" larger, and a little more numerous .at 

 the obtuse end, but gener.ally ai'c distributed with very little difference over the 

 whole surface of the egg. 



Actodromas maculata. 



THE FECTOBAL SANDPIPER. 



TringamatuMa, Vir.ii.i,. Nouv. Diet. X.XXIV. 1819, 46.'>. — (.'ass. in Bnird's B. N. Am. l.S.'iS, 



720. — Baiui), Cat. X. Am. B. 18.ii), no. .''.31. — Couivs, Key, 1872, 255 ; Chock List, 187.3, no. 



420; Birds N. W. 1874, 486. 

 Actodromas maculata, CoiEs, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1861, 197, 230; Cheek List, 2d cd. 1882, 



no. 616. — RiDGW. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 534. 

 Pclidna pedoralis, Boxap. Comp. List, 1838, 50. 

 Tringa pectoralis, Say, Long'.s Exp. I. 1823, 171. — Nutt. Man. IL 1834, 111. — Aun. Orn. Biog. 



IIL 1835, 601 ; V. 1839, .'582, j.l. 294 ; .'^ynop. 1839, 232 ; B. Am. V. 1842, 259, pi. 329. 

 Tringa dominiccnsis, Deol. Orn. Eur. IL 1849, 232. 



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HAn. The whole of North, nud the greater part of South, America, ranging south in winter 

 to Southern Brazil and Chili ; West Indies in general ; Bernmd.^ ; frequent in Europe ; North 

 China ? (Swinh. " Ibis," 18fi3, 97). Breeds in Arctic regions. 



Sp. Char. Adult in summer: Above, light clay-color, the crown, back, scapulars, and tertials 



