. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. PELIDNA AMERICANA : RED-BACKED SANDPIPER. 223 with a rich umber-brown of varying tint, and neutral shell-markings, which appear over the whole surface, but are largest and most massed at the greater end. RED-BACKED SANDPIPER. PeLIDNA ALPINA AMERICANA iCuSS.) CotieS. Chars. Bill longer than head or tarsus, compressed at base, rather depressed at the end, usually appreciably decurved. Length, ; extent, ; wing, ; tail, ; bill,
. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. PELIDNA AMERICANA : RED-BACKED SANDPIPER. 223 with a rich umber-brown of varying tint, and neutral shell-markings, which appear over the whole surface, but are largest and most massed at the greater end. RED-BACKED SANDPIPER. PeLIDNA ALPINA AMERICANA iCuSS.) CotieS. Chars. Bill longer than head or tarsus, compressed at base, rather depressed at the end, usually appreciably decurved. Length, ; extent, ; wing, ; tail, ; bill, ; tibise bare about ; tarsus, ; middle toe and claw, Adult in summer: Above, chestnut-red, each feather with a central black field, and most of them tipped with whitish ; rump and upper tail-coverts blackish ; tail-feathers and wing- coverts ashy-gray, the greater coverts tipped with white. Under parts white ; the belly with a broad, jet-black area, the breast and jugulum streaked with dusky. Bill and feet black. Adult in winter, and young: Above, plain ashy-gray, with dark shaft- lines, with or without red or black traces. Below, white, with little or no trace of black on the belly; jugulum with a few dusky streaks and an ashy suffusion. Chiefly a spring and autumn migrant, though oc- casionally observed at other seasons. It is a common. Fig. 49. — Bill and Foot of Red-backed Sandpiper. Natural size. bird coastwise, in flocks on the beaches with others of its tribe, but rarely found inland. Mr. C. J. Maynard. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stearns, Winfrid Alden, 1852-; Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. Boston, Lee and Shepard; New York, C. T. Dillingham
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