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23 July 1916 bundas-libr... , Devon Island, ..On the 
grassy slopes and around fresh water ponds, Baird's 
- sardpipers were .uich^rn dvidence, and tsiSS “evidently 
had ynnnr just out of the nes t.._Besides the broken 
wing and prostration tactics, another of its favorii 
tricks was to fluff up to about twice normal size, 
_and flutter_aer oss - eu -pond,—just barely, clearing- due 
surface of the ;vater, and crying in distress all 
the while. The buffy band across the breast is 
not ver y evident -ijL-d-lm-fj-aM-,—but-bhe—odd -size-, 
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intemediate between the least and the pector al, 
together with the general buffy coloration sake it 
unmls takabl e--,— Xt is about tl e-sizo-pf a white- 
rump I suppose. ZZ. <p <LM 
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15 Aug 1946 Croker^Bay, Devon B aird' s sandpiper 
was the most commonly encountered shorebird, seen 
~~alony the b eaich~in srlock3 of two-to eight individ¬ 
uals, I once thought that it was hard to identify, 
before I had seen it, but really it is an easy 
matter. It~is noticably larger -than the smaxler 
"peeps" , ab out the size of the while—rui.iped sand— 
er, and is conspicuously buffjr, especially 
the breast, where the Mi/ dark coloration is almost 
.as ive as on the pector al sandpiper, 1 have¬ 
n't noticed anything distinctive about its call 
note s.—-All neen toda y were obviously banded fcoj 
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