54 Miscellaneous Circular 13, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
238. Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (Pisobia acuminata”). 
Range.—Eastern parts ofthe Eastern Hemisphere. Breeds on the Chukchi Peninsula, Siberia; winters 
in Japan and south to New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, Tonga Islands, Australia,and New Zealand; 
in fall migration occurs on Kotzebue and Norton Sounds, Pribilof, Unalaska, and Queen Charlotte Islands; 
accidentalin Hawaiiand Great Britain. 
Names.—No vernacular names appear to have been applied to this species. 
239. Pectoral Sandpiper (Pisobia maculata). (Fic. 41.) 
Range.—North and South America. Breeds on the Arctic coast from northern Alaska to the mouth of 
the Yukon and northeastern Mackenzie (N. W. T.); wintersin South America from Peru and Bolivia to 
northern Chile, Argentina, and central Patagonia; in migration very rare on the Pacific coast south of 
British Columbia, except in Lower California; common in fall migration in the Mississippi Valley and on 
the Atlantic coast, rare in spring; casual in northeastern Asia, Unalaska .and Greenland; accidental in 
Hawaiiand England. 
FIG. 41.—Pectoral Sandpiper. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—Grass snipe. 
In local use-—Brownback, brownie (Mass.); cherook (also spelled chorook, churook; 
there.is a tendency to apply this name to all sandpipers) (La.); chevalier (cavalier, a 
French term applied to most of the sandpipers) (Que.); cow snipe (Va.); creaker (also 
spelled creeker, and krieker) (R. I., Long Id., N. Y., N. J., Pa., N. C.); dowitch (more 
commonly applied to No. 231) (Conn.); fat-bird (N. J.); grass-bird (Me., Mass.); grass- 
plover (Que., Ont., B. C.); hay-bird (N. J.); hay-plover (Va.); jacksnipe (Que., Me., 
Long Id., N. Y., Pa., Md., D. C., N. C., Ont., Mich., Mont.); marsh-plover (Mass.); 
May-plover (I1l.); meadow snipe (Long Id., N. Y., N. J., Mich.); pert (R. I.); prairie- 
pigeon (Iowa); sand snipe (Ark.); shortneck (Long Id., N. Y., N. J.); squat snipe, 
squatter (Conn.); triddler (N. J.). 
Geographic index.—Ark., sand snipe; B. C., grass-plover; Conn., dowitch, squat 
snipe, squatter; D. C., jacksnipe; I/l., May-plover; Jowa, prairie-pigeon; La., cherook; 
Me., grass-bird, jacksnipe; Md., jacksnipe; Mass., brownback, brownie, grass-bird, 
marsh-plover; Mich., jacksnipe, meadow snipe; Mont., jacksnipe; N. J., fat-bird, 
hay-bird, creaker, meadow snipe, triddler; V. Y., jacksnipe, creaker, meadow snipe, 
shortneck; N. C., jacksnipe, creaker; Ont., grass-plover, jacksnipe; Pa., jacksnipe, 
creaker; Que., chevalier, grass-plover, jacksnipe; R. J., creaker, pert; Va., cow snipe, 
hay-plover. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Alouette de prés (meadow lark), alouette pectorale (pectoral lark, 1. e., sea-lark or 
shore-bird with the breast marked), gray-spotted sandpiper, maubéche 4 poitrine 
cendré (gray-breasted sandpiper), maubéche tacheté (spotted sandpiper), redback, 
robin snipe. 
25 Pisobia aurita. 
