. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 260 SCOLOPACIDiE, SNIPE, ETC. GEN. 217, 218, 219. 217. M Spotted Sandpiper. Genus TRINGOIDES Bonaparte. Bill short, straight, grooved nearly to tip; 7-g wing about 4; tail about 2; bill, tarsus and middle toe, each, about 1. Above, olive (quaker-color; exactly as in a cuckoo) with a coppery lustre, tinely varied with black; line over eye, and e
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 260 SCOLOPACIDiE, SNIPE, ETC. GEN. 217, 218, 219. 217. M Spotted Sandpiper. Genus TRINGOIDES Bonaparte. Bill short, straight, grooved nearly to tip; 7-g wing about 4; tail about 2; bill, tarsus and middle toe, each, about 1. Above, olive (quaker-color; exactly as in a cuckoo) with a coppery lustre, tinely varied with black; line over eye, and entire under parts, pure white, with numerous sharp circular black spots, larger and more crowded in the 9 than in the $ , entii-ely wanting in very young birds; secondaries broadly white-tipped and inner primaries with a white spot; most of the tail feathers like the back, with subterminal black bar and white tip; bill pale yellow, tipped with black ; feet flesh-color. N. Am., extremely abundant everywhere near water, and riG. 172. Spotted Sandpiper. -, t j. r -i breednig throughout the country; tamu- iarly known as the saudlark, peetweet, teeter-tail, tip-up, etc., these last names being given in allusion to its habit (shared by allied species) of jetting the tail as it moves ; a custom as marked as the continual bobbiug of the head of the solitary tattler and others. Nest a slight affair of dried grasses, on the ground, often in a field or orchard, but generally near water; eggs 4, pointed, creamy or clay colored, blotched with blackish and neutral tint. WiLS., vii, 60, pi. 59, f. 1; Nutt., ii, 162; Auc, v, 303, pi. 342; Cass. IuBd., 735 '. 218. Genus PHILOMACHUS Moehring. \ I Ruff{$). Reeve (9). Bill straight, about as long as the head, H grooved nearly to tip ; gape reaching behind culmen; outer and middle toe webbed at base, inner cleft; tail barred ; $ in the breeding season with the face bare and beset with papillaj, and the neck with an extravagan
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