BIRDS OF DURHAM AND VICINITY. 
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Tringa canutus. Knot. 234. 
The Knot, Robin Snipe, or Red-breasted Sandpiper, as it is variously 
called, is a large, handsome sandpiper of regular, and fairly common 
occurrence along the coast spring and fall. It is the largest of its 
tribe. Adults are quickly recognized by the reddish-brown color of 
their under parts, which is usually suggested at least on immature 
specimens. 
Tringa maritima. Purple Sandpiper. 235. 
The Purple Sandpiper is an uncommon migrant, usually appearing 
late in the fall and early in spring. In eight local collections w4iich 
I have examined, all within a few miles of the sea, and the accumula- 
tion of years, I have found but tw^o specimens. One of these is in the 
possession of Mr. George Wentworth of Rollinsford, who killed it in 
January, while hunting for Eider Ducks. 
Tringa maculata. Pectoral Sandpiper. 239. 
The Pectoral Sandpiper is a common migrant on the coast, and is 
one of the few which sometimes pass in considerable numbers across 
the itnerior of the state, though not with the same regularity as 
nearer the sea. They are likely to be seen at any time between the 
latter part of August and the middle of October, though as a rule few 
remain after September. I have recorded them as early as August 
20, and as late as October 10. Sometimes they may be found on 
the mud-flats, but far more often on shores or marshes bearing scat- 
tered herbage. 
Tring-a fuscicollis. White-rumped Sandpiper. 240. 
White- rumped, or Bonaparte's Sandpipers, are abundant spring and 
autumn migrants along the beaches, coming and going with the tide 
of.shore birds that pass this way as a miscellaneous family, on their 
semi-annual journeys to and fro. 
Tringa bairdii. Baird's Sandpiper. 241. 
The only evidence of this Sandpipers presence that I have been 
able to find is in Stearns and Coues' "New England Bird Life'' in 
which is cited a record from the Bulletin of the Nuttall Club, Vol. VI, 
page 61, to the effect that Mr. H. M. Spelman secured two at Rye 
Beach, August 26th, 1880. Its normal range is the interior of this 
continent, and its occurrence here on the coast is unusual. 
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