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with numerous black or blackish cross-bars; breast heavily spotted or 
streaked and sides barred with black; belly white, legs yellow. Ads. and 
Juv. in winter—Similar, but upperparts brownish gray, the sides of the 
feathers with whitish spots; tail-bars grayish; breast lightly streaked with 
ashy. L., 10°75; W., 6°40; Tar., 2°05; B., 1°40. : 
Remarks.—This bird closely resembles the Greater Yellow-legs in 
color, but may always be distinguished by its smaller size. 
: Range.—N. and 8. A. Breeds from Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, n. Macken- 
zie, cen. Keewatin, and s. Ungava to the valley of the Upper Yukon, s. 
Sask., and n. Que.; winters in Argentina, Chile, and Patagonia, and 
casually in Mex., Fla., and the Bahamas; in migration occurs mainly e. of 
the Rocky Mts. (rare in spring on the Atlantic coast), and in the Pribilof 
Islands, Greenland, and Bermuda; accidental in Great Britain. 
_. Washington, rather common T. V., Mch. to May 15; Aug.-Oct. Long 
Island, T. V., very rare in spring, abundant in fall; July 15-Oct. 1. Ossining, 
tolerably common T. V:, in fall; Aug. 25-Oct. 5. Cambridge, rare T. V., 
May; Aug. 4-Sept. 15. N. Ohio, common T. V., Apl. 20-May 15; Sept. 1- 
Oct. 30. Glen Ellyn, quite regular, Apl. 15-May 19; July 6—Oct. 17. SE. 
Minn., common T. V., Apl. 7; Aug. 23-Oct. 11. 
Eggs, 3-4, buffy (variable as to shade), distinctly (sometimes broadly) 
spotted or blotched with dark madder- or vandyke-brown and purplish 
gray, 1°69 x 1°15 (Ridgw.). Date, Ft. Anderson, Mack., June 5. 
This species closely resembles the preceding in notes, habits, and 
choice of haunts. It decoys, however, more easily, and, generally 
speaking, is more common. 
The European Rep-sHanxk (Totanus totanus) has been once recorded 
from Hudson Bay (Coues, Auk, XIV, 1897, 211). 
256. Helodromas solitarius solitarius (Wils.). Soxirary Sanp- 
PIPER. Ads. in summer.—Upperparts olive-fuscous, with a slight greenish 
tinge, head and neck streaked and back spotted with white; upper tail- 
coverts fuscous, with fine whitish spots on their sides, lateral ones sometimes 
barred; central pair of tail-feathers fuscous, the others white, barred with 
black; breast streaked, and sides sometimes barred with black; belly white; 
axillars barred with black and white; legs greenish fuscous. Ads. and Juv. 
in winter. — Similar, 
but upperparts gray- 
ish brown; head and 
neck generally un- 
streaked, and back 
only lightly spotted 
with buffy white; 
breast streaked with 
brown ee Fia. 82. “anuer veey of wing of Solitary Sandpiper, 
1:20. B. 1-15 showing barred axillars. 
Range.—N. and 8S. A. Summers from cen. Keewatin, n. Ungava, and 
N. F. s. to Nebr., Ill., Ind., Ohio, and Pa.; probably breeds regularly in the 
n. part of its range, locally and casually in the s. part; winters from the 
West Indies to Argentina; recorded from Greenland, Bermuda, and Great 
Britain. 
Washington, common T. V., Apl—May 25; July 25-Nov. Long Island, 
common T. V., May; July 15-Oct. 1. Ossining, common T. V., May 3-30; 
Aug. 27-Oct. 2. Cambridge, common T. V., May 12-23; Aug. 10-Sept. 30. 
N. Ohio, tolerably common in summer, Apl. 20-Sept. 15. Glen Ellyn, fairly 
common T. V., Apl. 8-May 31; July 16-Oct. 6. SE. Minn. common T. V., 
Apl. 28; July 23—Oct. 4. jie ; 
Nest, lays in the abandoned nests of such tree-building birds as the 
