The Spotted Sandpiper 
Taken in Siskiyou County Photo by the Author 
LAKE ELAINE: A NESTING HAUNT OF THE SPOTTED SANDPIPER 
MT, SHASTA IN THE DISTANCE 
from southern California, Texas, and South Carolina, south to Brazil, Bolivia, and 
Peru. 
Distribution in California. —Common migrant. Resident in summer along 
larger streams and upon lakes of the Sierra Nevada system, at least as far south as the 
Cottonwood Lakes (alt. 11,000) (“Spring” arrival, July 14, 1911), and irregularly along 
major streams of the coastal system south to Ventura County. Sparingly resident 
in winter upon the coasts and islands of the San Diegan district and in the valley of 
the lower Colorado River. 
Authorities.—Cassin (Tringoides macularius), in Baird, Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv., 
vol. ix., 1858, p. 735 (Ft. Tejon; Sacramento Valley; Dwight, Auk, vol. xvii., 1900, 
p. 372 (molt); van Rossem, Condor, vol. xxii., 1920, p. 39 (Kern Lake, Tulare Co., breed¬ 
ing). 
THE TEMPTATION to try out nicknames on this, the best dis¬ 
tributed and possibly the most familiar American Shore-bird, is almost 
irresistible. If I were given first choice, I would choose Bird-in-love-with- 
his-shadow—even though that be an augmented instead of a “nicked’ 
name. Like a second Narcissus, this familiar little Sandpiper loves to 
linger at the water’s edge; and even if it be conceded that he has other 
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