The Sandpipers. 
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The Pectoral Sandpiper. 
South America. It has been met with in 
Great Britain on at least twenty-five oc- 
casions, and is to be told by the broad band 
across the breast, the brown legs and dark 
upper tail-coverts. During the breeding- 
season the male has a habit of inflating his 
throat till it hangs down like a kind of dew- 
lap. The nest is built in the grass in a 
high and dry situation, and the eggs are 
four in number, pear-shaped, stone-grey, 
with spots, blotches, and tiny dots of 
blackish brown and pale grey. 
THE SHARP-TAILED 
PECTORAL 
SANDPIPER. 
(Heteropygia acuminata.) 
This species is 
very like the Pec- 
toral Sandpiper, but 
has not such a wide 
breast-band, which 
is also not so well-defined, while the 
flanks are plentifully streaked with dusky 
black. Its home is in North-eastern 
Siberia, and it migrates in winter to 
Alaska, Japan, China, and as far south as 
Australia. It has twice occurred in Norfolk. 
The Sharp-tailed Pectoral Sandpiper. 
BONAPARTE'S 
SANDPIPER. 
(Heteropygia fuscicollis.) 
This is very like 
a small Dunlin in 
appearance, but is 
distinguished by its 
shorter bill, which is not longer than the 
tarsus. The upper tail-coverts are white, and 
this character suffices to separate Bonaparte’s 
Sandpiper at all ages. It is a common 
North American species, but has been found 
accidently in Great Britain about a dozen times. It has occurred as far east as Franz 
Josef Land, where Mr. F. G. Jackson obtained it. 
The bill is longer than the tarsus in this species, and the 
latter is not equal to the length of the middle toe. The thigh 
is feathered right down to the bend of the tarsus. The Purple 
Sandpiper may nest on the hills of the Shetlands and the moors 
Bonaparte’s Sandpiper. 
THE PURPLE 
SANDPIPER. 
(Arquatella maritima. 
