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Spotted Sandpiper; Tilt-up; Teeter Snipe; Peet-weet— 
(Ac tit is macu laria ). 
A common, small, brownish-gi-ay-backed sandpiper, with the white under 
parts everywhere spotted with black. This is an inhabitant of the margins of 
all rivers, ponds and lakes, as well as of the ocean. 
Breeds in whole of North America. Winters in West Indies and Mexico 
to northern South America. Abundant summer resident, generally distributed 
throughout New Jersey, breeding on the coast as well as inland. 
Long-billed Curlew; Sickle-bill— (Numenius longirostris). 
A very large, long-legged, much mottled, dax-k-brown-backed, shoi-e bird, 
with buffy under pai-ts, and a sickle-like, downwardly curved, exceedingly long 
bill. The head and neck are peculiarly streaky. 
Breeds in temperate North America, only so far northward as New Jersey 
on the Atlantic slope. Winters in South Atlantic States and Cuba. A strag¬ 
gler on the New Jersey coast. 
TIudsonian Curlew; Jack Curlew— (Numenius hudsonicus). 
A large, common, much mottled, generally brownish, shore bird, with whitish 
belly, and a long, sickle-like, downwardly curved, slender bill. 
Breeds far northward 1 . Winters in South America. Common transient 
along the New Jersey coast, occurring May 1st to June 1st, and July 15th to 
September 15th. 
Eskimo Curlew ; Small Curlew; Doughbird; Fute— - 
(Numenius borealis). 
A large, slendei’-billed, long-legged, much mottled, brownish c-ui-lew, with 
a decidedly curved bill like the last two species. The under parts are buffy, with 
a darker and a very streaky breast. 
Breeds far nox-thward. Winters in South America. Rare transient on 
the coast. 
FAMILY CIIARADRIIDLE.—THE PLOVERS. 
Seven plovers occur in New Jersey. The Killdeer breeds regu¬ 
larly inland, and the Piping Plover sparingly on the coast. 
Black-bellied Plover; Black-breast; Bull-head Plover; 
Beetle-head— ( Squatarola squataro la ). 
As seen in the autumn and winter in the United States: a short-billed, 
short-tailed, large (for a plover), mottled, grayish-brown, shore bird, with 
grayish or whitish under parts mottled, with more or less of blackish on the 
breast. This is our only plover with a hind toe. During its northward 
migration in the spring, it is found with a more or less complete black breast 
and fore belly. 
Breeds far northward. Winters in Southern Hemisphere. Common tran¬ 
sient on the New Jei-sey coast. 
