‘Binek Cjucaispeaties 12 | ee! | 
Head, neck, chest blackish gray; coat | of plumage sooty 
brown. — 
Notice—Bill and see of lta ‘vermilion; reat white, 
tinged with rose. Z ¥ | 
Found—Pacifie Coast of N. A. 
Nest—Bare rocks. ee. 
Kg gs—2-3 whitish, buffy, epotied: 
- Shouting, chuckling cry. | 
Kaeding Petrel, 8. 
Bluish gray, darker wings. | 
Notice—White rump, tubular nostrils. 
Found—North Pacific Ocean. | 
Nest—Grass at end of burrow. 
Egos—1, whitish. 
“Rolling cackle, ‘petteretterel’. is 
Tufted Puffin, 15-16. 
Sooty black, or sooty brown; legs and feet salmon-red. 
_ Notice—White forehead and ‘cheeks; white eyes;; huge red 
bill; creamy tuft from chin back of eyes. — 
Found—Pacific Coast of U. S. a 
-Nest—Network of burrows in ground, or crevices of rocks, 
- Eggs—1 whitish, on Nile. bround of burrow. 
“Low raucous groan.” | 
Virginia Rail, 8-10%. 
Above brownish black striped with light browns and umber; 
below cinnamon brown. : 
Notice—Extreme thinness; chestnut wing’ pateh and long 
reddish bill. Ae a 
Found—Entire U. 8. | | 
Nest—Swamp, sedges and grasses. 
EKegs—6-12 pale buffy. 
“Cackle and laugh.” 
Red-backed Sandpiper, about 8. oe 
 §. Above reddish brown with some black streaks: below 
whitish, streaked in front with dusky; belly black. W. paler. 
Notice—Long black bill and faint stripe above eye. 
Found—N. A. breeding far north. 
i Nest—Ground. 
Eggs—4 buffy or clay. 
“A musical trilling note.” 
| Spotted Sandpiper, 7-8. 
S. Above bronzy-olive; below white spotted with bronzy; 
W. under parts not spotted. 
Notice—Conspicuous white bar on wing; cherie cae 
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