Shore-bird Shooting 429 



on inner web, and secondaries tipped with white ; tertiaries, 

 dark brown, barred with black and edged with buff; lower back, 

 rump, and central upper tail-coverts, black ; lateral tail-coverts, 

 black at base, then buff, barred with black and edged with 

 white ; middle tail feathers slate-gray, barred with black, edged 

 with white; the other tail feathers buff, edged with white, 

 spotted with black, and with a subterminal bar of black; 

 lower parts, buffy white, deepest on lower neck and breast, 

 where spotted and irregularly barred with dark brown, these 

 bars extending on sides ; bill, brownish black, yellowish at 

 base; feet and legs, yellowish. 



Young — Similar, but buff everywhere deeper and approaching 

 ochraceous buff on head, sides of neck, and outer edges of 

 tertials and upper wing-coverts. 



Downy young — Upper parts, grayish white, irregularly spotted with 

 black ; dusky spots on lores, auriculars, cheeks, and flanks ; 

 lower parts, buffy white. 



Measurements — Length, 12 inches; wing, 6.50 inches; oilmen, 1.25 

 inches ; tarsus, 2 inches. 



Eggs — Three or four ; clay color, spotted with brown and purplish 

 gray; measure 1.75 by 1.25 inches. 



Habitat — Breeds from Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, 

 Illinois, Kansas, and Colorado, north to Maine, Ontario, the 

 Barren Grounds, Saskatchewan, Athabasca, and probably the 

 Yukon Valley to Fort Yukon, west to the Rocky Mountains, 

 Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and probably Utah. Winters rarely in 

 Florida and Louisiana, and south through South America to 

 Uruguay, Argentina, and Chili. In the migrations occurs chiefly 

 between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi, but also to 

 the entire Atlantic Coast, north to Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, 

 and Quebec, the Bermudas and West Indies, and west to 

 Vancouver Island, British Columbia, New Mexico, and Arizona. 

 Rare in the northeastern part of its range. Has been recorded 

 frequently from Great Britain and Europe, and once from 

 Australia. 



This species is fully described in the " Upland 

 Game-Birds " volume of this library. 



