SN] PICS, SA NDI’I PICKS, li'l‘C. 161 
     
    
   
   
    
     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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