﻿BIRDS 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  335 
  

  

  are 
  the 
  only 
  records 
  for 
  New 
  York 
  during 
  the 
  last 
  50 
  )'ears 
  that 
  have 
  come 
  

   to 
  our 
  notice: 
  

  

  A'Vest 
  Troy, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Aug. 
  27, 
  1861. 
  (2). 
  Thomas 
  Heimstreet 
  

  

  Penn 
  Yan, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Oct. 
  15, 
  1874. 
  James 
  Flahive 
  

  

  Montauk 
  Point, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Aug. 
  26, 
  1880. 
  Berier, 
  N. 
  O. 
  C. 
  Bui. 
  6: 
  126 
  

  

  Blissville, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Sept. 
  16, 
  1881. 
  (Hendrickson). 
  Butcher 
  

  

  Kendall, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Apr. 
  20, 
  1884-85. 
  Posson, 
  Auk, 
  16: 
  194. 
  David 
  Bruce 
  

  

  Lockport, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Aug. 
  31, 
  1886. 
  Davison 
  List 
  

  

  Brockport, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Sept. 
  1886. 
  David 
  Bruce 
  

  

  West 
  Seneca, 
  Erie 
  co., 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Aug. 
  1888. 
  James 
  H. 
  Savage 
  

  

  Mastic, 
  Suffolk 
  co., 
  L. 
  I. 
  Aug. 
  28, 
  1888. 
  Dutcher, 
  Auk, 
  6: 
  136 
  

  

  Long 
  Island 
  City, 
  L. 
  L 
  Sept. 
  17, 
  1889. 
  W. 
  F. 
  Hendrickson 
  

  

  Gaines, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Fall 
  1897. 
  Posson, 
  Auk, 
  16: 
  194 
  

  

  Shinnecock 
  bay, 
  L. 
  L 
  About 
  1870. 
  (Nichols). 
  Dutcher 
  

  

  Rockaway, 
  L. 
  L 
  Aug. 
  25, 
  1873; 
  Aug. 
  1874; 
  Sept. 
  13, 
  1875; 
  Sept. 
  1879; 
  Lawrence, 
  

  

  Forest 
  and 
  Stream, 
  10; 
  235 
  

   Rockaway, 
  L. 
  L 
  Aug. 
  1888. 
  (3). 
  (Lawrence). 
  Dutcher 
  

  

  Queens 
  co., 
  L. 
  L 
  Aug. 
  31, 
  1894. 
  Howell. 
  (Johnson). 
  Braislin, 
  Birds 
  of 
  Long 
  Island, 
  p. 
  63 
  

   Rockaway 
  Beach, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Sept. 
  11, 
  1904. 
  (Peavey). 
  Braislin, 
  Auk, 
  22: 
  169 
  

  

  " 
  Sept. 
  4, 
  1906. 
  (Peavey). 
  Braislin, 
  Birds 
  of 
  Long 
  Island, 
  p. 
  63 
  

  

  Cleveland, 
  Ohio. 
  Wheaton, 
  Birds 
  of 
  Ohio, 
  p. 
  491 
  

   Ontario, 
  near 
  Lake 
  Erie. 
  Breeds. 
  Mcllwraith, 
  Birds 
  of 
  Ontario. 
  1894. 
  p. 
  156-57 
  

  

  Actitis 
  macularia 
  (Linnaeus) 
  

  

  Spotted 
  Sandpiper 
  

  

  Plate 
  36 
  

  

  Tringa 
  macularia 
  Linnaeus. 
  Syst. 
  Nat. 
  Ed. 
  12. 
  1766. 
  1:249 
  

   Totanus 
  macularia 
  DeKay. 
  Zool. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  1844. 
  pt 
  2, 
  p. 
  246, 
  fig. 
  206 
  

   Actitis 
  macularia 
  A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  1895. 
  No. 
  263 
  

  

  acti'tis, 
  Gr. 
  d/cTtV?;?, 
  dweller 
  by 
  the 
  shore, 
  or 
  worker 
  by 
  the 
  shore; 
  

   macula' 
  ria, 
  Lat., 
  spotted 
  

  

  Description. 
  Bill 
  straight, 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  head 
  or 
  tarsus 
  or 
  middle 
  toe 
  

   and 
  claw 
  ; 
  tibia 
  bare 
  for 
  half 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  tarsus 
  ; 
  outer 
  and 
  middle 
  toes 
  

   webbed 
  to 
  their 
  first 
  joint, 
  inner 
  toe 
  free; 
  tail 
  rounded, 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  

   wing; 
  upper 
  parts 
  grayish 
  olive 
  with 
  brassy 
  luster, 
  spotted 
  with 
  dusky 
  — 
  in 
  

   streaks 
  on 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  neck, 
  in 
  broken 
  bars 
  on 
  the 
  back; 
  inner 
  tail 
  feathers 
  

   like 
  the 
  back, 
  outer 
  ones 
  whitish 
  barred 
  with 
  dusky; 
  a 
  line 
  over 
  the 
  eye 
  

   white; 
  under 
  parts 
  white, 
  profusely 
  spotted 
  with 
  black, 
  the 
  spots 
  roundish, 
  

   and 
  heavier 
  in 
  the 
  femiale 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  wing 
  feathers 
  dark 
  brownish 
  

  

  