SHORE BIRDS 
[242.1.] Long-toed Stint. 
Pisobia damacensis. 
An Asiatic species accidentally found on the 
Alaskan shores. It is a very similar bird to the 
Least Sandpiper, and about the same size. As 
implied by its name, it has unusually long toes. 
[243.] Dunlin. Pelidna alpina alpina. 
A very common Sandpiper in the British Isles 
and in Europe, but only casually occurring as a 
straggler along the Atlantic coast. Very similar 
to the next species, but a trifle smaller. The nest 
and eggs do not differ from the following. 
243a. Red-backed Sandpiper. Pelidna alpina 
sakhalina. 
Range. — Whole of North America, breeding 
from southern Greenland, Labrador, Hudson Bay 
and the Yukon, northward, wintering from the 
Gulf States south- 
ward. This hand- 
Greenish buff. 
some species is 
similar to the Pribi- 
lof Sandpiper, but is 
smaller (length 8 
inches), the upper 
parts are more red- 
dish, the breast 
more heavily streak- 
ed, and it has a black 
patch on the belly instead of on the breast as in 
ptilocmmis. Their nesting habits are similar to 
others of the family; they lay three or four eggs 
with a brownish or greenish buff color, heavily 
blotched and spotted with shades of brown and 
chestnut. Size 1.40 x 1.00. Data.- — Peel River, Arctic America, June 30, 1899. 
Nest a simple cavity in the ground, lined with a few grasses and three or four 
leaves. Collector, J. O. Stringer. 
Red-backed Sandpiper. 
Curlew Sandpiper. 
244. Curlew Sandpiper. Erolia ferruginea. 
Range. — -A common Old World species, but regarded as rare in eastern North 
America and northern Alaska. 
A bird of slighter build, but similar coloration to the Knot; smaller (length 
eight inches) and with a slightly decurved bill. Until within recent years, eggs 
of these birds were rarely seen in collections, and I believe they have not yet 
been taken in this country, although a few pairs nest along our Arctic coast. 
Their eggs are very similar to those of the Red-backed Sandpiper, but average 
somewhat larger. Size 1.50 x 1.05. Data. — Kola, northern Lapland, June 15, 
1898. Four eggs laid in a grass-lined hollow in the ground. Collector, J. 
Ramberg. 
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