A76 BIRDS—SCOLOPACID&. 
jugulum is hardly perceptible except in young birds, and then it is slight; the streaks — 
are very numerous, broad and distinct, extending as specks neatly or quite to the bill, 
and as shaft lines along the sides. 
Habitat, North America, east of the Rocky Mountains. Not observed in Alaska. 
Breeds in the far North. Migratory through the United States, in the eastern Province. 
Winters in the Southern States. Greenland. WestIndies. Centraland South America. 
Hurope, rarely. 
Not uncommon spring and fall migrant on Lake Erie, rare in the in- 
terior of the State. The White-rumped Sandpiper was given as an Ohio 
bird by me in 1861, on the authority of Mr. Winslow. I have met with 
it but once, in a locality known as the “ Broom.corn fields,” near Shade- 
ville, in this county, late in October, 1875, and Mr. Langdon notes two 
specimens taken near Cincinnati, September 6, 1879. 
No reliable description of their nest and eggs is known to me. 
(Sob genus Arquatella. Tarsus shorter than middle toe; tibie feathered.) 
TRINGA MARITIMA Brunnich. 
Purple Sandpiper. 
Tringa maritima, WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 380 (probable); addenda, 480; 
Reprint, 1861, 10; Food of Birds, etc, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 572; Reprint, 
1875, 12. 
Tringa maritima, BRUNNICH, Orn. Bor., 1764, 54. 
Bill little longer than the head, much longer than the tarsus, straight or nearly 
se; tibial feathers long, reaching to the joint; though the legs are really bare a little 
way above; adult, above ashy-black with purplish and violet reflections, most of the 
feathers with pale or white edgings; secondaries mostly white; line over eye, eye- 
lids and under parts white, the breast and jugulum a pale cast of the color of the back, 
and sides marked with the same. In winter, and mostimmature birds, the colors are 
similar but much duller; very young birds have tawny edgings above, and are mottled 
with ashy and dusky below. Length, 8-9 inches; wing, 5; tail, 2%, rounded; bill, 14; 
tarsus, $; middle toe, 1, or a little more. 
Habitat, North America, northerly and chiefly coastwise. South to the Middle States 
in winter. Great Lakes. Greenland. Europe. Asia. 
Very rare visitor on Lake Erie. Mr. Winslow informed me that a 
specimen was taken, many years since, in the vicinity of Cleveland, 
which was preserved in the Museum of the Cleveland Academy of Natu- 
ral Sciences, Mr. Ridgway in 1874, gives it as a bird of Illinois, and Dr. 
Coues says “it is said to be common on Lake Michigan.” This is proba- 
bly a mistake, for Mr. Nelson in 1876, gives as the only instance of its 
- occurrence known to him, a single male,in the collection of Dr. J. W. 
Velie, taken on the lake shore near Chicago, November 7,1871. Dr. Hoy 
