SNIPES, SANDPIPERS, ETC. 



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mottled with grayish ; forcneck heavily streaked; breast and sides heavily 

 barred with dark brownish gray and more or less washed with huily ; belly 

 generally white, with sometimes a few bars. Winter pluvtaoe, — Upper parts 

 brownish gray, unmarked ; tail without bii;s ; rump and wings as in the adult; 

 breast washed with grayish ; belly white ; axUlam black. L., 16-00; W., 8-00; 

 Tar., 2-30; B., 2-15. 



7i'a»</«.— Eastern North Ameriea, breeding from Florida to southern New 

 Jersey, and loeally and rarely to Maine. 



Washington, rare T. V., Aug. Long Island, T. V., rare in May; uncom- 

 mon in Aug. and Sept. Sing Sing, A. V. 



K<jgs., three to four, clay-color or buffy, thickly spotted with eliocolate, 

 cliiefly at the larger end, 2*10 x 1-55. 



Willets frequent both fresh- and salt-water inar.shes, shorc.i, and 

 beaches. If you visit their haunts during the nesting season, on flut- 

 tering wings they will hover above your head or fly low over the 

 marsh to draw you away from their home, uttering, with scarce a mo- 

 ment's cessation, their loudly whistled call of pilbj-u'ill-wiJht, pilly- 

 will-u'illet. All day long, and even at night, I have lieard them repeat 

 these notes until, wearied by their [)ersistence, one is thankful to leave 

 them in undisturbed possession of the ground. 



S68a. S. s. inomata Brewst. Wkstkhn Wn.r.ET.— Slightly larger 

 than the ))receding, and, in summer ]ilumaire, the upjier ])arts are paler and 

 less iieavily marked with biiick ; the breast is less lieavily streaked and more 

 sufFust 1 with butfy, and the middle tail-feathers are without black bars. In 

 winter plumage the two forms can be (listiiitruislied only by the slight ami 

 inconstant character of size. \V.. Si".o; 'i"ar., 'jriO ; li., l'-io. 



/iW«f/c.— Western United States, lirei'diiig from Texas to Manitoba; win- 

 ters on the (Inlf coast from Florida to Te.xtis. 



Tlic Rt'KK i2(i0. PiirottrfI/<i /)'i;f>ia.r) is an ()ld-Wor!d species which occa- 

 sionally wanders to eastern Nortli .\merica. It has been taken in ;>Iaitie, 

 Massachusetts, Ontario, Ohio. Long Island, and New Jersey. The adult male 

 may be known by its enlarired rutf. whicli varies in color from black, chest- 

 nut, and rufous to buft'y and whitish. The female is witliout a ruff, and is 

 otherwise very different from the male. Tlic upi>er parts are grayisli l)rown, 

 the back, scapulars, and tertials are brondly tmrrcil with black, the outer 

 tail-feathers are ashy, the inner niies are burred with buffy and hhick, the 

 breast is ashy, with concealed black l)ars, tlic lielly is wliite. In winter tlio 

 upper parts arc light grayish brown with few or no bars. $ L., l2-r>0; W., 

 7-50; Tar., 1-90; B., V50. 9 L., lOOO; W., t!-nO; Tar., 1-40; B., Mo. 



261» Bartramia lon^cauda ( /}>r?n<f.). Bartramian- Sanopiper; 

 Upi.anu I'i.oveu; Kiki.d I'i.ovkr. ./'/. Head and neck streakeil with black 

 and ocliraceous-buft"; back and wing-coverts ochraceous-i)uff, barred with 

 black ; tertials olive, barred with black and nuirgiiu'd with ochraceous-buff; 

 primaries fuscous, the outer one harrnl with nhiti' ; inner tail-feathers brown- 

 ish gray, outer ones varying from ochraceous-buti to white, all more or less 





