154 NOTES ON THE 
It may be accounted rare, but not a straggler, for I am satis 
fied now that it remains within the vicinity of where I have 
met with it, as it was late in July in two instances. Their 
habit of prodding under the stones along the beach of the 
lake near which my summer cottage is located, interested me 
exceedingly. The crop was abundantly stored with larvae and 
insects that abound there. I think that they remain about as 
late in the autumn as do the average of the Sandpipers, before 
retiring for the winter. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 
Upper parts variegated with black, dark rufous, and white; 
head and neck above white, with numerous spots and stripes 
of brownish-black on the crown and occiput; space in front of 
eye white, surrounded with black; throat white on each side 
of which is a stripe of black running from the base of the 
bill downwards and joining a large space of black on the 
neck before the breast; abdomen, under wing coverts, under 
tail coverts, back and rump, white; quills brownish-black, 
with white shafts; tail white at base, with its terminal half 
brownish-black, tipped with white; greater wing coverts 
widely tipped with white, forming a conspicuous oblique bar 
across the wing; bill black; legs orange; in winter the black 
of the upper parts is more apparent; the rufous of less ex- 
tent, and of lighter shade; iris hazel. 
Length, 9; wing, 6; tail, 2.50. 
Habitat, nearly cosmopolitan. 
