SNIPES, SANDPIPERS, ETC. 



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district and intorior of IJritish Aiiifiicu; nortliward to the arctic coast; South 

 America in winter; of tVcfiucnt occurrence in Kurope" (A. 1). U.). 



Long Isl'uul, rare T. V., Aug. and Sept. 



K<j[\s, tiwee to four, butfy grayisii white, varying to pale olive-i)ufF, boldly 

 spotted longitudinally (and : <nicwhat spirally j with dark Vandyke- or mud- 

 der-brown and purplish gray, i 53 x 104 (^Kidgw.). 



This is a rare species on the Athintic coast. Dr. Hatch writes of 

 it as observed by him in Minnesota: "They are an extremely active 

 si)eeies when on the wing, and essentially ploverine in ail respects, 

 seeking sandy, barren [)rairies, where they live npon grasshoppers, 

 crickets, and insects generally, and ants and their eggs specially. 1 

 have found them repasting upon minute mollnsks on the sandy shores 

 of small and siiallow ponds, where they were apparently little more 

 suspicious than the Solitary Sandpipers are notably. Tiie llight is in 

 rather compact form, dipping and rising alternately, and with a dis- 

 position to return again to the neighborhood of their former feeding 

 phvces." 



263. Actitismacularia (/./////.). Spotted ^anopipek. Aii.intmm- 

 iiur. — Upper parts lirownish gray with a faint greenish lustiT, the head and 

 neck more or less streaked, and tiie back barred or spotted w ilh black ; inner 

 tail-fe; 'hers like the back, outer ones with blackish burs; under jiarts white, 

 everywhere spotted witli black. ///(. — Upper parts brownish gray, with a 

 greenish tinge, tiic back faintly and wing-coverts conspieuously Iiarrcd with 

 black and butf'y ; under parts pure wiiite, unspotted, biu sli^'htly wasiied witli 

 grayish on tlic breast. U'infir ji/uiimife. — Simihu', but i>ack 1)ni\Nner and 

 without bars. L., T-r.o ; W., 4"20 ; Tar., -'M^ : H., ".ir.. 



/(''///^^('.^Nortli .Viiicrica north to Hiulson I'ay ; breeds throughout its 

 range; winters southward to IJrazii. 



Washington, cinnmoii T. V., not eominnii S. H., Apl. ,'> to Sept. W. T<oiig 

 Island, abundant S. K., Ajil. '2!'> to Oct. Sing Siuir, er.mmon S. I{.. .\p!. -Jlt to 

 Oct. '2-'!. Cambritlge, cotumon S. K., .\p]. •_'»! to Sept. 



Ki/'jn, four, creamy l)utf or white, tliickly siiottcd and spcekled with choco- 

 late, chietly atithc larger ' nd, t"J.") x •",(.'>. 



Pew Shore Birds are more generally known than this widely dis- 

 tributed little Sandpiper. It frequents the margins of Ijodies of both 

 fresh and salt water, but is more common inland on the shores of our 

 rivers, ponds, and lakes. During the summer it is prac^tioally our only 

 fresh-water Sandpiper, aiul is fatuiliarto most of us iiiuler its common 

 names. It runs rapidly along the beach, then {lausing bobs, bows, and 

 ''teters" in a nu)st energetic iiuitnuM*. When flushed it takes wing 

 with a sliarf) wvct-irref ircrt-uw'f, and after a few wing-strokes scales 

 over the water to the beach beyond. It apparently dislikes to go be- 

 yond certain limits, and after several flights makes a wide circle and 

 returns to the starting point. 



