The Baird Sandpiper 
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BAIRD’S SANDPIPER 
No. 239 
Baird’s Sandpiper 
A. O. U. No. 241 . Pisobia bairdi (Coues). 
Description. —Adult in summer: Upperparts fuscous, with considerable edging 
of buffy and light brownish gray,—the buff mostly in lateral striping on top of head 
and hind-neck, where predominant, and as terminal edging on back, etc.; some whitish 
edging on coverts, secondaries and inner quills, but no strong shades or contrasts 
anywhere; upper tail-coverts and tail dark fuscous, the former tipped with buff, and the 
latter edged with whitish, the outer feathers becoming much lighter; forehead and 
supraloral streaks pale buffy or whitish; throat white; the sides of the head, neck and 
breast with a heavy buffy suffusion, lightly and finely spotted and streaked with 
brownish dusky; remaining underparts white. Bill and legs black. In winter the 
shades of the upperparts are a little more blended. Immature: Similar to adult, 
but buffy suffusion of head, neck and breast more pronounced; the feathers of back 
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