WniTE-EUMPED SANDPIPER. 475 



Baird's Sandpiper is only known to breed in the Arctic regions. The 

 eggs are clay-colored, spotted with umber-brown. They measure about 

 1.80 by .90. 



Trikga maculata Vieillot. 



Pectoral Sandpiper. 

 Triiiga maculata, Wheaton, Ohio Agrio. Eep. for 1860, 369 ; Reprint, 1861, 11 ; Food of 

 Birds, etc., Ohio Agrio. Eep. for 1874, 572; Eepriufc, 1875, 12.— Langdon, Cat. 

 Birds of Gin., 1877, 14 ; Eevised List, Journ.Cln. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 182; Ee- 

 print, 16. 



Tringa maculaia, Vieillot, Nonv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxxiv, 1819, 465. 



Coloration much as in last species, bnt crown noticeably different from cervix ; chest- 

 nut edging of scapulars straight-edged ; chin -whitish, definitely contrasted with the 

 heavilyashyshadedandsharplydusky-streaked jngulum. Large. Length, 8i-9inche8; 

 wing, 5-Ei ; bill, tarsus and middle toe with claw, about IJ ; bill and feet greenish. 



Habitat, North, Central and South America. West Indies. Greenland. Europe. 



Very common spring and fall migrant, apparently most numerous in 

 spring. Arrives in March and returns in September, October and Novem- 

 ber. It is frequently seen in large flocks in spring, but oftener in small 

 companies, or sometimes single birds. At this time it frequents wet corn- 

 fields and meadows. In the fall solitary individuals are the only 

 ones I have observed frequenting the shores of streams and ponds, often 

 associating with the smaller species of this and the preceeding family. 

 It is generally a shy and suspicious bird, and is said to have some of the 

 desirable qualities of a game bird, especially as it will lie to a dog better 

 than most species of this family. 



Spring specimens differ somewhat in plumage. In addition to birds 

 as above described, I have taken specimens after the middle of April in 

 which the bay skirting of the feathers is broadly replaced by ashy ex- 

 eept on the innermost scapulars, while birds earlier in the season pre- 

 sented the normal coloration. 



Tringa fuscicollis Vieillot. 



"WTiito-rnmped Sandpiper. 



Tringa ionaparlH, Wheaton, Ohio Agri. Eep. for 1860, 369 ; Repcint, 1861, 11. 



Tringa honapartei, Wiibaton, Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agrio. Kep. for 1874, 572 ; Re. 

 print, 1875, 12.— Langdon, Cat. Birds of Cin,, 1877, 14. 



Tringa fuscicollis, Langdon, Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soo. Nat. Hist., 1, 1879, 188; Re- 

 print, 23 ; Field Notes, ii, 1880, 127. 



Tringa fuscicollis, Vieillot, Nonv. Diet. d'His. Nat , xxxiv, 1819, 461. 

 Tringa tonapartii, Schlagel, Rev. Crit. Ois., Eur., 1844, 69. 



Size, medium. Upper tail-coverts white ; feet black ; bill black, light colored at base 

 below; coloration otherwise much as in the preceeding species. An ashy wash on the 



