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WADING BIRDS. 
Senegal, another from the Cape of Good Hope (as is also 
indicated by Latham’s name of the Cape Curlew), and a thir 
from North America. 
The Curlew Sandpiper is not an uncommon bird in Europe but, 
exSptiiKrin Greenland and Alaska, very few examples have been 
nmt with in America, and those few were seen along the Atlanti 
coast during the migrations. It is supposed to breed throughout 
the entire Arctic regions, but of its nesting habits very little is 
Though an exceedingly active bird, when feeding, it proceeds 
quite lefsurely with its migrations, and while on these journeys 
Lquents theLlt-marshes and the tide-washed sandbars near the 
"^Tn many'habTts and in flight it resembles the Dunlin for which d 
is often rnistaken. This mistake is liable to be made in winter, 
when the plumage of the two are very similar. In summer dress 
our bird appears somewhat like a small edition of the Knot. 
RED-B.\CKED SANDPIPER. 
dunlin, black-breast, black-bellied sandpiper, 
black-heart, winter snipe. 
Tringa ai.pina p.acifica. 
Char Adult in summer: upper parts chestnut, streaked with black ; 
winas and tail a.shy gray; throat and breast grayish white with dark 
strelks ; lower breast black ; belly white. Adult in winter i “PP" P^’ 
brownish gray or ashy gray ; under parts white, neck and chest s‘F«=iked 
spangly with gray. In young birds the feathers on the upper pa.ts are 
rSwithfuJus or Uthe top of the is light chestnut and 
black, and the under parts are white, spotted with black. Length S to ^ 
‘"S. Amid long grass on a salt-marsh or beneath a bunch of heather 
on a moor or hillside, — a slight depression, lined with grass, leaves, 
™ 4 ; dull buff tinged with brown or olive, marked with chestnut ; 
1.45 ^ 
The Dunlin, or Red-backed Sandpiper, of the United States, 
according to the season of the year, is met wUh throughout 
the northern hemisphere, penetrating, in America, during the 
summer season, to the utmost habitable verge of the Arctic 
