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dusky, all the feathers crossed with dark bars ; eyelids, supra- 

 loral stripe, and lower parts, white ; the sides of head, neck 

 entire, and jugulum, streaked with brownish slate ; remaining 

 lower parts, white ; lining of wing and axillars, slate, irregularly 

 barred with white. 



Adult male and female in winter plumage — Upper parts, dark ashy, 

 less distinctly speckled ; neck, very indistinctly streaked with 

 ashy, otherwise similar to breeding plumage. 



Young — Upper parts, grayish brown, thickly speckled with pale 

 buff; crown and neck, plain brownish gray; cheeks and sides 

 of neck, gray streaked with dusky ; bill, dusky ; iris, brown ; legs 

 and feet, olive. 



Measurements — Length, 8.50 inches; wing, 5.25 inches; culmen, 

 1.25 inches; tarsus, 1.25 inches; middle toe, 1 inch. 



Eggs — Not described. 



Habitat — Recorded in the breeding season in Louisiana, from the 

 mountains of Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky, 

 and Colorado, and from Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, 

 Vermont, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, and Kansas, north 

 to northern Labrador, Hudson Bay, Fort Simpson, and Kotzebue 

 Sound, Alaska. Winters from the West Indies south to Uruguay, 

 Argentina, and Peru. Common in migrations about small bodies 

 of water in the United States west to the Rocky Mountains, 

 replaced beyond them, as a rule, by the western subspecies. 

 Recorded from Bermuda, Lower California, British Columbia, 

 Greenland, and Great Britain. 



Sometimes called the wood tattler, this dainty 

 sandpiper is most often found along the shores of 

 our wooded lakes, — sometimes alone, usually in a 

 small flock. We find them often at a high alti- 

 tude in the mountains. Little mud-holes filled 

 with old stumps and logs, the shores lined with 

 dead wet leaves, are their favorite haunts. Here 

 they run about from place to place, searching for 

 little grubs and worms that such locations abound 



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