. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush. Birds. FAM. XXXIX. SNIPES, SANDPIPERS, ETC. 239 size, but in summer the long-billed has the breast and belly more uniformly rufous, and the sides more heavily barred with black. This is the dowitcher of the interior of the United States and is rare on the Atlantic coast, though it can be found there quite regularly in the late autumn. (Western Dowitcher; Red-bellied Snipe.) Length, 12 ; wing, 5|-6; tarsus, If; culmen, 2^.3J. AVestern North America; breeding in the Arctic
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush. Birds. FAM. XXXIX. SNIPES, SANDPIPERS, ETC. 239 size, but in summer the long-billed has the breast and belly more uniformly rufous, and the sides more heavily barred with black. This is the dowitcher of the interior of the United States and is rare on the Atlantic coast, though it can be found there quite regularly in the late autumn. (Western Dowitcher; Red-bellied Snipe.) Length, 12 ; wing, 5|-6; tarsus, If; culmen, 2^.3J. AVestern North America; breeding in the Arctic regions, migrating south througli the western United States (including the Mississippi Valley), and wintering in Mexico and possibly South America. 6. Stilt Sandpiper (233. Micropdlama Mmdntopus). — A rare, very long-legged, long-billed, very much mottled sand-piper, with the center of each of the feathers blackish (in general) and the edges brown- ish-gray. The tail, throat, and line over the eye are much lighter. The colors are much grayer in winter, the under parts being white. It is slow moving as com- pared with other sand- jDipers, and is more apt to squat than fly wlien disturbed. Length, 7J-9J; wing, 5}; tail, 2J; tarsus, 1| ; breeding far north, and Stilt Sandpiper culmen, l^lj. wintering from Eastern the West North Indies America; to South 6. Knot (234. Trlnrja canktus). — A very large and, as usually seen in the United States, mottled, gray-backed, white-bellied, plover-like sandpiper, with more or less of a red, robin-like breast. The back and wings are more beautifully marked in. 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 Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig), 1838-1908. New York, Cincinnati [etc. ] American Book Co
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