SPOITED SANDPIPER. 
TIP-UP. TEETER-TAIL. PEET-WEET. 
Actitis macularia. 
Char. Above, bright ash, tinged with green of a metallic lustre and 
marked with black spots ; white line over the eyes ; wings dusky ; under 
parts white, profusely spotted with dull brown. In winter the upper parts 
are grayish olive, and the under parts white without spots. Length about 
7% inches. 
A’est. Near the shore of river or lake or on the margin of a pasture, 
under a bush, or amid tussock of grass or weeds, — a slight depression 
lined with grass, moss, or leaves. 
Eggs. 4; dull buff or creamy, spotted with dark brown ; 1.25 X o.go 
The Peet-Weet is one of the most familiar and common of 
all the New England marsh-birds, arriving along our river 
shores and low meadows about the beginning of May from 
their mild or tropical winter-quarters in Mexico, and probably 
the adjoining islands of the West Indies. By the 20th of 
April, Wilson observ'ed the arrival of these birds on the shores 
of the large rivers in the State of Pennsylvania. They migrate 
and breed from the Middle States in all probability to the con- 
fines of the St. Lawrence or farther, but were not seen by 
Dr. Richardson or any of the Arctic voyagers in the remote 
