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flight resembling that of many other shore-birds. 

 The male wheels high in air on rapidly beating 

 wings, uttering often a weak song, and then 

 alights on the top of some spruce. 



A set of five eggs ascribed to this species, the 

 parent of which was seen closely but not secured, 

 was taken on an island in Lake Ontario, June 

 io, 1898. The eggs, averaging 1.32 inches long 

 by .95 inch wide, had, when found, a dark reddish 

 ground color with faint purple markings and 

 grotesque brown figures, scattered over the shell, 

 and were laid on the ground in a hilly field near 

 the lake. 



WESTERN SOLITARY SANDPIPER 

 (Helodromas solitarius cinnamomeus) 



Similar to the solitary sandpiper, but " larger, wings grayer, the light 

 spots on the back, scapulars, and wing-coverts, brownish cinna- 

 mon instead of white or buffy whitish ; the sides of the head 

 with more whitish, especially on lores. No well-defined loral 

 stripe." The outer primary is mottled with ashy white some 

 distance beyond the tips of the under primary coverts, this 

 marking seldom occurring in solitary sandpipers taken in the 

 East. The differences in color are more pronounced in young 

 birds in juvenile plumage. 



Habitat — Found in the breeding season from the interior of British 

 Columbia, north to the upper Yukon in Alaska, and recorded in 

 migrations from California and Lower California to Montana, 

 North Dakota, and Arizona. The exact limits of the range of 

 this subspecies are as yet doubtful, but in winter it probably 

 ranges south to Peru. 



The habits of this bird are like those of the 

 eastern subspecies. 



