WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER. 
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WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER. 
BONAPARTE’S SANDPIPER. 
TrINGA FUSCICOLLIS. 
Char. Upper parts brownish gray, striped with black and tinged with 
rufous ; wings ashy brown ; rump brownish ash ; upper tail-coverts white ; 
tail grayish brown, the two middle feathers darker ; under parts white, 
the breast washed with gray. In winter the upper parts are entirely 
brownish gray. Bill short and blackish brown, paler at the base ; legs 
brownish olive. Length about -j'/t inches. 
A'frt, On a low lying sea-shore or near the muddy margin of a lake or 
stream close by the sea, — a slight depression, lined with dead leaves. 
^gg^- 4 : olive or olive brown or grayish buff, marked with chestnut 
and dark brown 1 sometimes marked also with pale brown and purplish 
gray ; I 35 X 0.95. 
I his species, so nearly related to the preceding, is also com- 
mon to both continents, penetrating inland in America to the 
Western plains of the Mississippi, and inhabiting the shores of 
the small lakes which skirt the plains of the Saskatchewan, 
and probably the remoter wilds of the Arctic circle. Accord- 
mg to Bonaparte these birds are rather common on the coast 
of New Jersey in autumn, and Mr. Oakes met with several in 
the vicinity of Ipswich, in Massachusetts. They are either seen 
m flocks by themselves or accompanying other Sandpipers, 
which they entirely resemble in their habits and food, fre- 
quenting marshy shores and the borders of lakes and brackish 
waters. They associate in the breeding-season, and are then 
by no means shy ; but during autumn, accompanying different 
birds, they become wild and restless. Their voice resembles 
that of the Dunlin, but is more feeble; and they nest near 
their usual haunts, by lakes and marshes. 
This is the Schinz’s Sandpiper of Nuttall and Bonaparte. It is 
common bird in eastern North America, migrating northward 
along the Mississippi valley as well as by the Atlantic coast, and 
'^^bing in the Arctic regions, — from Labrador to the Polar Sea. 
During the migrations numbers of these birds appear along the 
ew England shores in company with several of their smaller 
® >es, from which they are readily distinguished by their conspic- 
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