SANDPIPERS 



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(240) Pisobia fuscicollis 



{Vicill.) (Lat., dusky neck). 



WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER. 

 Plumage as shown ; rump white ; 

 breast and sides conspicuously 

 streaked. In winter, the rufous edg- 

 ings on the upper parts are largely 

 replaced by gray. L., 7.50; W., 

 4.90; Tar., .90. B., .95. 



Range — Breeds on the Arctic 

 coast. Migrates through the Miss. 

 Valley and on Atlantic coast to South 

 America. 



(241) Pisobia bairdi {C<me$). 



BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. Upper 

 tail coverts and rmnp grayish; 

 breast and sides indistinctly streaked. 



Range — Breeds along the Arctic 

 coast. Migrates through the in- 

 terior and less often on the Atlantic 

 coast to South America. 



our Arctic coast, laying four eggs in a slight depression lined 

 with moss or grasses. These eggs are of a grayish color, 

 very handsomely splashed with gray, brown, and lilac. 



PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, or, as they are more com- 

 monly called when with us, Grass or Jack Snipe, frequent 

 ponds, rivers, marshes, and meadows throughout the interior 

 as well as the Atlantic coast during their biannual migrations. 

 As we see them in the states, they appear to be just ordinary 

 small sandpipers, but if we follow them to their northern 

 homes from Mackenzie to Alaska we shall find that they are 

 quite remarkable. During the mating season, the skin on 

 the breast of the male becomes soft and flabby, hanging 

 down like a dewlap. This skin is capable of being distended 

 with air so as to puff out as large as the bird's body, at which 

 time strange, hollow, resonant notes come from his throat, 

 similar to the syllables "tooo-u; tooo-u, " repeatedly uttered. 



WHITE-RUMPED and BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS are 

 two not uncommon species of a size intermediate between 



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