. The birds of Ontario [microform] : being a list of birds observed in the Province of Ontario, with an account of their habits, distribution, nests, eggs, & Birds; Oiseaux. BIRDS OF and feet blackish. Young : above, clear ash, with numerous black and white semicircles ; below white, more or less tinged with reddish, dusky speckled on breast, wavy barred on sides. Length, lo-ii ; wing, 6-6^ ; tail, 2^, nearly square ; bill about i) (very variable). Hab. Nearly cosmopolitan. Breeds in high northern lattitudes, but visits the Southern Hemisphere during its migrations. This is the largest
. The birds of Ontario [microform] : being a list of birds observed in the Province of Ontario, with an account of their habits, distribution, nests, eggs, & Birds; Oiseaux. BIRDS OF and feet blackish. Young : above, clear ash, with numerous black and white semicircles ; below white, more or less tinged with reddish, dusky speckled on breast, wavy barred on sides. Length, lo-ii ; wing, 6-6^ ; tail, 2^, nearly square ; bill about i) (very variable). Hab. Nearly cosmopolitan. Breeds in high northern lattitudes, but visits the Southern Hemisphere during its migrations. This is the largest and handsomest of th6 Sandpipers ; though said to be common along the sea coast it is only an occa- sional visitor inland. The specimen in my collection I killed many years since on the muddy shore of one of the inlets of the bay. I did not see it again till May, 1884, when K. C. Mcll- wraith killed four very fine specimens m a moist vegetable garden on the beach. Dr. Wheaton met with it only once in Ohio, and it is not mentioned in the List of the Birds of Western Ontario, from which it may be inferred that we are not on the line of its migrations. In distribution it has a wide range; in the fall large flocks, which are supposed to come from Ice- land visit the east coast of Scotland. It is also reported from Australia, New Zealand and South America Subgenus ARQUATELLA Baird. 90. TRINGA MARITIMA Brunn. 235. Purple Sajtdpiper, Bill little longer than the head, much longer than the tarsus, straight or nearly so ; tibial feathers long, reaching to the joints ; though the legs are really bare a little way above ; adult, above ashy-black with purplish and violet reflections, most of the feathers with pale or white edgings ; second- aries mostly white ; line over eye, eye-lids and under-parts white, the breast and jugulum a pale cast of the color of the back, and sides marked with the same. In winter, and most immature birds, the colors are similar but much duller ; very young birds
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