. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. TRINGOIDES MACULARIUS : SPOTTED SANDPIPER, 241 SPOTTED SANDPIPER. Tringoides MACULARIUS (Z.) Gray. Chars Bill straight, only about as long as head or tarsus, grooved for about \ its length. Tarsus about as long as middle toe and claw ; tail rounded, half as long as the wing. Bill and feet pale- colored. Above, silky ashy-olive (color of a cuckoo) with a coppery lustre, finely varied with blackish. Line over eye and entire under parts, pure white, fully spotted with
. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. TRINGOIDES MACULARIUS : SPOTTED SANDPIPER, 241 SPOTTED SANDPIPER. Tringoides MACULARIUS (Z.) Gray. Chars Bill straight, only about as long as head or tarsus, grooved for about \ its length. Tarsus about as long as middle toe and claw ; tail rounded, half as long as the wing. Bill and feet pale- colored. Above, silky ashy-olive (color of a cuckoo) with a coppery lustre, finely varied with blackish. Line over eye and entire under parts, pure white, fully spotted with dusky — the spots larger and more crowded on the female than on the male, wanting in the young. Secondaries and their coverts broadly tipped with white ; tail incompletely white-barred. Feet pinkish- white, drying yellowish ; bill flesh-color, black-tipped. Length, about ; extent, ; wing, ; bill, tarsus, and middle toe with claw, each, This is one of the very few Waders, if indeed not the only one, which apparently nests with equal readiness in. Fig. 56. — Head of Spotted Sandpiper. Nat. size. almost any portion of its North American range. Hence it is a summer resident in New England, where it arrives the latter part of April or beginning of May, and remains until October, being diffused in abundance all over our country wherever there is water. It is a familiar inhabitant of moist meadow-land and the brook- side, where its low, devious flight, its amusing postur- ing, and its mellow "peet-weet" are known to all who. 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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