Purple sandpiper 
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sandpipers which flushed iron the beach to a grounded 
growler, turned out to be immature purple sandpipers. 
One s t i ll had - i,iuch down on th e, nape and about the .. 
head and had probably been reared not far away. 
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Large sise, about that of the pectoral sandpiper, and 
v e ry dark coloration will set the purple sanapipe -r- 
apart with certainty in the field. S~ f3, z.) 
