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La.); gray snipe (Long Id., N. Y.); horse-foot snipe (N. J.); May-bird (S. @.): 2 
breast (N. S., Mass., N. J., Va., Miss., B. C.); red-breasted Pee (Ms. Magy" eS 
breasted sandpipe (Que., R. I., Va.); red-breasted snipe (Wis., Wash.); robin-breast 
(N. J.); robin-breasted snipe (Md.); silverback, silver-plover (Mass.); wahquoit 
(Mass.); white robin-snipe (Long Id., N. Y.); whiting (this and the last, as well as 
names beginning with gray, are for the immature) (Mass.). 
Geographic index.—B. C., redbreast; La., gray-plover; Me., blue-plover, grayback 
red-breasted plover; Md., robin-breasted snipe; Mass., blue-plover, buftbreast oray- 
back, redbreast, red-breasted_ plover, silver-back, silver-plover, wahquoit, whitine- 
Miss., redbreast; N. J., grayback, horse-foot snipe, redbreast, robin-breast; N. Y., 
grayback, gray snipe, white robin-snipe; N. C., beach-robin, gray-plover; N. S., red- 
breast; Que., red-breasted sandpiper; R. I., red-breasted sandpiper; S. C., May-bird: 
Tex., beach-quail; Va., redbreast, red-breasted sandpiper; Wash., red-breasted snipe: 
Wis., red-breasted snipe. ; 
BOOK NAMES. 
Ash-colored sandpiper, canut (from the name of King Canute, from which knot 
also is said to be derived), freckled-sandpiper, grisled sandpiper, knot sandpiper, 
maubéche 4 poitrine rousse (red-breasted knot, the French name maubéche, meaning 
poor beak, while specific for the knot, is used in combination for many shorebirds; 
in these cases it is translated sandpiper), red sandpiper, white-bellied snipe. 
FIG. 40.—Knot. 
235. Purple Sandpiper (Arquatella maritima). 
Range.—Three subspecies of this bird occur in our territory, their ranges being as follows: 
Common purple sandpiper (Arquatella maritima maritima).—Northern Hemisphere. Breeds from 
Melville Island, Ellesmere Land, and northern Greenland south to Melville Peninsula, Cumberland 
Sound, and southern Greenland, and in Norway, Russia, Siberia, Iceland, and Farde Islands; winters 
from southern Greenland and New Brunswick to Long Island; casual in migration to the Great Lakes, 
Georgia, Florida, and Bermuda, and in the Eastern Hemisphere south to Great Britain and the Mediter- 
ranean region. 
AleutianSandpiper (Arquatella maritima cowesi).—Alaska. Breeds on the Commander, Aleutian, 
and Shumagin islands; winters on Commander, Kuril, Kodiak, and Aleutian islands, and Alaskan coast 
south to Sitka, casually to Washington; in migration occurs on Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, and at Plover 
Bay, Siberia. 
Pribilof Sandpiper (Arquatella maritima ptilocnemis).—Alaska. Breeds on St. Lawrence, St. Matthew, 
and Pribilof Islands; winters on coast of southeastern Alaska near Lynn Canal; wanders in migration 
north to Norton Sound and southwest to Unalaska. 
Vernacular names.—Purple-back (N. B.); rock-bird (Me., Mass.); rockplover, rock 
snipe (Mass.); sand-peep (N. S.); winter-geese (Mass.); winter rock-bird (Me.); 
winter snipe (Me., Mass., Conn.). All these names, it will be noted, apply to the 
subspecies known as the common purple sandpiper. ; 
Book names.—Maubéche pourpre (purple sandpiper, rock sandpiper, rock-weed 
bird, Selminger sandpiper, striated sandpiper, winter peep. The following book 
names have been applied to the Pacific subspecies: Bering sandpiper, black-breasted 
sandpiper, thick-billed sandpiper. 
