. New England bird life: being a manual of New England ornithology; . IPER. PeLIDNA ALPINA AMERICANA iCclSS.) CoueS. Chars. Bill longer than head or tarsus, compressed at base, ratherdepressed at the end, usually appreciably decurved. Length,; extent, ; wing, ; tail, ; bill, ; tibi^ bare about ; tarsus, ; middle toe andclaw, Adult in summer: Above, chestnut-red, each featherwith 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
. New England bird life: being a manual of New England ornithology; . IPER. PeLIDNA ALPINA AMERICANA iCclSS.) CoueS. Chars. Bill longer than head or tarsus, compressed at base, ratherdepressed at the end, usually appreciably decurved. Length,; extent, ; wing, ; tail, ; bill, ; tibi^ bare about ; tarsus, ; middle toe andclaw, Adult in summer: Above, chestnut-red, each featherwith 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. Underparts white ; the belly with a broad, jet-black area, the breast andjugulum streaked with dusky. Bill and feet black. Adult inwinter, and young: Above, plain ashy-gray, with dark shaft-lines, with or without red or black traces. Below, white, withlittle or no trace of black on the belly ; jugulum with a few duskystreaks 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 ofits tribe, but rarely found inland. Mr. C. J. Maynard 224 SCOLOPACID^ : SNIPE, ETC. speaks of taking it late in November, and a few individ-uals doubtless winter with us. The same observer tookit June 18, 1868, about a fresh-water pond near Ips-wich ; but this date is exceptional. At Calais, Me.,Mr. Boardman records its presence in August and Sep-tember. In Mr. Allens Catalogue of 1878 it is markedfor Massachusetts as an abundant migrant, with theobservation that a few sometimes remain in summer(Bull. Essex Inst., x, [878, p. 24). There is no evidencethat it breeds in New England. CURLEW SANDPIPER. Ancylochilus subarquatus {Giild.) Kaiip. Chars. Bill much longer than head, very slender, decurved ; legslong; tibise bare for about half the length of the tarsus. Adult:crown of head and entire upper p
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