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white, the sides sometimes spotted with blaek. 14., 8'00; \\'., 4'75; Tar.,1‘00; 15., 1‘50.

[fawn-lai'l'here is, of eourse, every degree, of intemrmlation between summer and “inter plumage, but the speeies may always be known by its slightly eurle bill.

li’alxg/ar—Noi'tli .\im-riea. breeding in the aretie regions and wintering?r from Florida southward: rare in the interior.

Washington, rare ’1‘. V., Apl.; Uet. Long Island, T. V., uncommon in

FIG. 63.——Red»baeked Sandpiper. (Natural size.)

spring, Apl. 1 to May 15; eommon in fall. Aug. 31 through ()et. Sing Sing, tolerably eommon ’1‘. V. in tall, ()et. :5 to Oct. :54. Cambridge, casual, one instance, UeL.

[Ll/(Is, three to four. varying from pale, bluish white to oehraeeous—bufi', heavily marked with chocolate, ehietly at the larger end, 1‘43 x 1'01.

Generally speaking, this is a shore or beach bird, though it also visits grassy marshes. It flies and feeds in flocks, and is an unsus- pieious. rather stupid little Snipe. less active than most members of this family. The gray—plumaged fall birds are known as “ Leadbaeks," while in the spring they go by the names “ Blaekbreast ” or “ Redback."

The Drxrix «ZN. TI'i/zyrz alpine) is the Old—World representative of our Red-baeked Sandpiper, from whieh it ditl'ers only in being less brightly eolored and somewhat smaller. ].., about 7'40: W” 41246“; Tan, ‘Tsiao; 1%.. TUB—l"

The ('i‘mJ-zw SANm-iricn (2.14. Trial/m frrrzq/izma) inhabits the ~astern hemisphere. and oeeurs easually in eastern North America. It has been re- corded t'rom ()ntario, Nora Seotia. Maine, Massachusetts, and Long Island.

i. It is ot'easual oeeurrenee in North Ameriea.

246- Ereunetes pusillus t Linnfl. SEMIPALMATEII SANDPII’ICR : SAND Oxr ' ‘

brownish gray and a small amount of rutous; rump grayish brown; upper

; PEEP. .11], in .wmmer',—~l'pper parts blnek or t'useous. margined with

tail—eoverts blaekish : tail—feathers brownish gray, eentral ones darkest; breast streaked or spotted with blaekish. lnz.—.\'imilar, but upper parts and wing— coverts blackish, with rounded rutilus or bull'y tips to the feathers; breast un—

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