CURLEW SANDPIPER. 
Tringa feeruginea. 
Char. Bill long, slender, and decurved. Adult in summer ; upper 
parts mottled black, gray, and rufous ; wing.s and tail ashy gray ; tail- 
coverts pale buff barred with black ; under parts rich chestnut. Adult in 
Winter; upper parts grayish brown; tail-coverts white; under parts 
white ; chest with a few indistinct streaks of gray. Young : like adult in 
Winter, but feathers of upper parts margined with buff ; neck streaked 
With brown. Length about Syi inches. 
Wej-r. On the margin of a lake or stream; a slight depression, lined 
With dry grass. 
— i>, “ pale grayish or greenish buffy, spotted with deep brown, 
c- i 1.50 X 1.04” (Ridgway). 
Of this species very little is known. It is found on the sea- 
coast and by the borders of lakes, and is sometimes seen in the 
interior of the countries it frequents. Like most species of the 
genus, it is migratory in the spring and autumn, and at such 
tunes proceeds in flocks along the coast or on the borders of 
urge rivers. The food of this bird is usually small insects 
and worms, as well as the herbage of some of the sea-vveeds 
V uci). So wide are the devious wanderings of this cos- 
mopolite pigmy that Temminck obtained a specimen from 
