RED-BACKED SANDPIPER. 
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^t?**^** low water, feeding on small worms, and 
In which generally ahouiid in such places. 
le month of May they are extremely fat. 
Sca*^V ^ifd is said to inhabit Greenland, Iceland, 
t], the Alps of Siberia, and, in its migrations, 
jjg of the Caspian Sea.* It lias not, till now, 
®f X *®®°SR*^ed by natui'alists as inhabiting this part 
be •***^^" 'America. Wherever its breeding place may 
Kea **^ P’'ohably begins to lay at a late period of the 
Uie'*?*^’ '**•’ *** Rumhers of females which 1 examined on 
111.. June, the eggs were no larger than gi-aius of 
seed. ’ fee 
ext the red-back, eight inches and a half, 
fwb'^r ^^teen inches ; bill, black, longer than the head, 
uent Would seem to rank it with tlie snipes,^ slightly 
tile I on the upper mandible, and wrinkled at 
fust back, and scaiiulars, bright reddish 
qyj,; spotted with black; wing-coverts, pale olive; 
"hit* the lirst tipt, the latter crossed rvith 
q^; ' fcoiit, cheeks, hindhead, and sides of the neck, 
Wi,|® *'R"nd ; :Jso the breast, grayish white, marked 
a 1 *'’Rall specks of black ; bell}’, white, marked with 
"liddl black; tail, pale olive, the two 
'dael- centred with black ; legs and feet, ashy 
a gjj V toes, divided to their origin, and bordered with 
Khtly scalloped membrane ; irides, very dai'k. 
•■esn RRJ females are nearly alike in one 
t>oth differing greatly in colour, even at the 
bei- **®^fou, probably owing to difl'crcnce of age ; some 
iduin “RfeJ' brighter red than others, and the 
toinb Jotted with white. In the month of Sep- 
OR **’^® ^ound destitute of the black crescent 
bifij^'® 00 % ; these have been conjectured to be young 
* Pennant. 
'■OL. in. 
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