RED-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 
141 
alarmed, neither do they run about in the water as much as 
some others, or with the same rapidity, but appear more tran- 
quil and deliberate. In the month of November they retire to 
the south. 
This species is ten inches long, and twenty in extent; the bill 
is black, and about an inch and a half long; the chin, eyebrows, 
and whole breast, a pale brownish orange colour; crown, hind- 
head, from the upper mandible backwards, and neck, dull white, 
streaked with black; back a pale slaty olive, the feathers tipt 
with white, barred and spotted with black and pale ferruginous; 
tail-coverts white, elegantly barred with black; wings plain 
dusky, black towards the extremity; the greater coverts tipt 
with white; shafts of the primaries white; tail pale ashy olive, 
hnely edged with white, the two middle feathers somewhat the 
longest; belly and vent white, the latter marked with small ar- 
row-heads of black; legs and feet black; toes bordered with a 
narrow membrane; eye small and black. 
In some specimens, both of males and females, the red on 
the breast was much paler, in others it descended as far as the 
thighs. Both sexes seemed nearly alike. 
