476 BIRDS — SCOLOPACID^. 



jngalum is hardly perceptible except in yonng birds, and then it is slight ; the streaks 

 are very numerous, broad and distinct, extending as specks nearly or quite to the bill, 

 and as shaft lines along the sides. 



Habitat, North America, east of the Socky Mountains. Not observed in Alaska. 

 Breeds in the far North. Migratory through the United States, in the eastern Province. 

 Wintersiu the Southern States. Greenland. West Indies. Central and South Ameiioa, 

 Europe, rarely. 



Not uncommon spring and fall migrant on Lake Erie, rare in the in- 

 terior of the State. The White- rumped Sandpiper was given as an Ohio 

 bird by me in 1861, on the authority of Mr. Winslow. I have met with 

 it but once, in a locality known as the " Broom corn fields," near Shade- 

 ville, in this county, late in October, 1875, and Mr. Langdon notes two 

 specimens taken near Cincinnati, September 6, 1879. 



No reliable description of their nest and eggs is known to me. 



(Sub genus ArqiiaftUa. Tarsus shorter than middle toe ; tibire feathered.) 

 Tbinga maritima Brunnich. 



It*urple Sandpiper, 



Tringa maritima, Wiieaton, Ohio Agrio. Eop. for 1860, 380 (probable); addenda, 480; 

 Reprint, 1861, 10; Food of Birds, etc, Ohio Agrio. Rep. for 1874, 572; Reprint, 

 1875, 13. 



Tringa maritima, Bbunsicu, Oru. Bor., 1764, 54. 



Bill little longer than the head, much longer than the tarsus, straight or nearly 

 so ; tibial feathers long, reaching to the joint ; though the legs are really bare a little 

 ■way above; adult, above ashy-black with purplish and violet reflections, most of the 

 feathers with pale or white edgings ; secondaries mostly ■white ; line over eye, eye- 

 lids and under parts white, the breast and jagulum a pale cast of the color of the back, 

 and sides marked with the same. In winter, and mosc immature birds, the colors are 

 similar but much duller ; very young birds have tawny edgings above, and are mottled 

 with ashy and dusky below. Length, 8-9 Inches ; wing, 5 ; tail, 2f , rounded ; bill, 1 J ; 

 tarsus, f ; middle toe, 1, or a little more. 



Habitat, North America, northerly and chiefly coastwise. South to the Middle States 

 in -winter. Great Lakes. Greenland. Europe. Asia. 



Very rare visitor on Lake Erie. Mr. AVinslow informed me that a 

 specimen was taken, many years since, in the vicinity of Cleveland, 

 which was preserved in the Museum of the Cleveland Academy of Natu- 

 ral Sciences, Mr. Ridgway in 1874, gives it as a bird of Illinois, and Dr. 

 Coues says " it is said to be common on Lake Michigan." This is proba- 

 bly a mistake, for Mr. Nelson in 1876, gives as the only instance of its 

 occurrence known to him, a single male, in the collection of Dr. J. W. 

 Velie, taken on the lake shore near Chicago, November 7, 1871. Dr. Hoy 



