Sbore-bird Shooting 369 



pale grayish buff, the chest indistinctly streaked with dusky; 

 lower tail-coverts with dusky shafts. 



Young — Above, bright rusty, the feathers with black centres; the 

 whole top of head, bright reddish brown, broadly streaked with 

 black; on each side, a finely streaked superciliary stripe of 

 white; outer scapulars, tipped with white; rump and middle 

 upper tail-coverts, brownish black, tipped with brown ; middle 

 tail feathers, black, edged with brown ; remaining tail feathers, 

 dusky, bordered with whitish ; cheeks, whitish, streaked with 

 dusky; jugulum, breast, and sides, deep buff, finely streaked 

 with dusky ; remaining lower parts, including the throat, 

 white. 



Measurements — Length, 8 inches; wing, 5.50 inches; culmen, 1 

 inch; tarsus, 1. 12 inches. 



Habitat — Breeds probably in eastern Siberia, going south in winter 

 to Oceanica, Australia, New Zealand, and the Malay Archipelago, 

 through China and Japan. It is common on the north shore of 

 Siberia in August, and fairly common at St. Michael, Alaska, 

 in September, occurring also at Kotzebue Sound, the Pribilof 

 Islands, Unalaska, the Queen Charlotte Islands, and Hawaii, 

 and has been taken in Great Britain. 



An Asiatic species taken on the Alaskan coast. 

 Nelson took a female at St. Michael in 1877 

 and later found it a common species, frequenting 

 the pools on the marshes in common with the 

 pectoral sandpiper. In habits the sharp-tailed 

 sandpiper resembles the latter, but differs from it 

 in plumage, having the top of the head more red- 

 dish and the breast without streaks. On the 

 Siberian coast this bird is common. It occurs 

 near St. Michael in small flocks the latter part 

 of September, but has not been taken in Alaska 

 during the breeding season. 



