244 SNIPES AND SANDPIPERS 
B. Wing under 5°75. 
a. Underparts white, with numerous round blackish spots; upper- 
parts brownish gray, barred with blackish. 
263. Spotrep SANDPIPER. 
1 Underparts white, breast streaked with blackish; upperparts fus- 
cous, spotted with white . . . 256. Sorrary SANDPIPER. 
c. Underparts eae with buffy, inner web of outer primary speckled 
with blackish. 262. BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 
d. Underparts white, breast washed with grayish, inner primaries 
and secondaries with a concealed white patch. 
263. Sporrep SANDPIPER (Im.). 
2. Tail without cross-bars. 
A. Toes 4. 
a. Bill over 1°10. 
a}, Middle upper tail-coverts with cross-bars or streaks. 
a*, Tarsus over 1°50 233. Stitt SANDPIPER. 
a3, Tarsus under 1°50, wing under 6°00 244, Curtew SANDPIPER. 
a4, Tarsus under 1°50, wing over 6'00. . 234. Knot, 
61. Middle upper tail-coverts without cross-bars or streaks. 
b?, Middle upper tail-coverts black or fuscous, without bars; bill 
straight. 
63. Tarsus under 1°50; upperparts Blaelieh more or less mar- 
gined with gray. . . . 235. PURPLE SANDPIPER. 
b4. Tarsus under 1°50; upperparts bee or less margined with 
rufous. . 239. PectoraL SANDPIPER. 
ae Tarsus over 1°50 . . 260. Rorr. 
ee upper ak coverts grayish, bill’ curved slightly down- 
ard F 243a. RED-BACKED SANDPIPER. 
b. Bill inner 1°10. 
bl, Wing under 4°00. 
b?. Toes partly webbed. 
246. SEMIPALMATED Salaaainas 247. WrstERN SANDPIPER. 
b3. Toes not webbed . . . . 242, Leasr SANDPIPER. 
cl, Wing over 4°00. 
c?. Inner webs of primaries plain. 
c3, Breast white or whitish, streaked or spotted with blackish; 
middle upper tail-coverts white. 
240. WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER. 
c!. Breast buffy, heavily spotted or streaked with blackish; mid- 
dle upper tail-coverts black, slightly margined with rufous. 
239, PrecroraL SANDPIPER. 
c, Breast buffy lightly spotted or streaked with black; middle 
upper tail-coverts fuscous, lightly margined with buffy. 
241. Bairp’s SANDPIPER. 
d?, Inner webs of primaries speckled. 
262. BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 
B. Toes3 . 1. 6. ee we ew ew ww ew ew «6248. SANDERLING. 
228. Philohela minor (Gmel.). AMERICAN Woopcockx. (Pl. VIII. Figs. 
11, 15.) Ads.—Front of crown slaty, washed with buff, an indistinct black- 
ish line in its center, and another from eye to bill; back of head black, with 
two or three bars of ochraceous-buff; rest of upperparts black, mar- 
gined with slaty and barred and mottled with rufous or ochraceous-buff; tip 
of tail ashy gray above, silvery beneath; underparts between ochraceous 
buff and rufous; outer three mumaries very narrow and much stiffened. 
L., 11°00; W.., 5:40; Tat, 1°26; B., 
Range. —f. N. Am. ‘Breeds inte a N. D., s. Man., n. Mich., s. Que. 
and N.S8. 5s. tos. ‘Kans., s. La., and n. Fla; winters from s. Mo., the Ohio 
Valley, eae a. Ni J; (rarely Mass, ) s. to Tex. and s, Fla.; ranges casually to 
Sask., Keewatin, Colo., N. F., and Bermuda. 
