ACTODROMAS BAIRDI : BAIRD S SANDPIPER. 2I9 



while feeding, and when flushed, flew in that swift, 

 erratic way characteristic of most of the smaller Waders. 

 The peculiar coloring of the upper parts gave them a 

 striped appearance, which should serve to distinguish 

 them from any other eastern Sandpiper excepting 

 Tryngites riifescens" (Bull. Nutt. Club, vi, 1881, p. 60). 



The first New Hampshire record is given by Mr. H. 

 M. Spelman, who obtained two specimens at Rye 

 Beach, N. H., Aug. 26, 1880 (Bull. Nutt. Club, vi, 1881, 

 p. 61). 



Our esteemed correspondent, Mr. Purdie, advises us 

 of further notes on this species, which we have had no 

 opportunity of looking up. These are : Quart. Journ. 

 Bost. Zool. Soc, i, 1882, p. 31 ; Maynard's Birds E. N. 

 A., p. 381 ; and the Ornithologist and Oologist, vii, 

 1882, p. 133 — the latter reference being to Central 

 New York. 



This Sandpiper is only known to breed in high lati- 

 tudes. Eggs are described by Coues as having the 

 ground clay color, tending in some cases to gray, in 

 others to buff; the spotting rich umber and chocolate- 

 brown of varying shade or depth, with the usual paler 

 shell-markings. In most instances the markings are fine 

 and innumerable, of indefinite size and shape, though 

 thickest and largest at the greater end, where occasionally 

 massed in large blotches. Specimens measure : 1.30X 

 0.90; 1.35X0.94; 1.28X0.90. 



