. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush . Buff-breasted Sandpiper Length, 7-9 ; wing, b\ (5-5J) ; tail, 2^ ; tarsus, 1| ; culnien, ]. NorthAmerica, especially in the interior; breeding in the Arctic regions, andwintering in South America. 20. Spotted Sandpiper (263. Act)tis maculdna). — A common,small, brownish-gray-Viacked sandpiper, with the white underparts everywhere spotted with black. This is an inhabitant ofthe margins of all rivers, ponds, and lakes, as well as of theocean. In summer,it is about our onl
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush . Buff-breasted Sandpiper Length, 7-9 ; wing, b\ (5-5J) ; tail, 2^ ; tarsus, 1| ; culnien, ]. NorthAmerica, especially in the interior; breeding in the Arctic regions, andwintering in South America. 20. Spotted Sandpiper (263. Act)tis maculdna). — A common,small, brownish-gray-Viacked sandpiper, with the white underparts everywhere spotted with black. This is an inhabitant ofthe margins of all rivers, ponds, and lakes, as well as of theocean. In summer,it is about our onlyfresh-water sand-piper. It is a rapid runner and a good ^^^-,r«. teeterer. Its sharpnotes ]ieet-weet aregiven when usually returns toits starting point, at Sp°«^ Sandpiper least after several flushings. (Tilt-up ; Teeter Snipe; Peet-weet.) Length, 7-8 ; wing, 4| (4-4i) ; tarsus, 1 ; culnien, ]. America, fromAlaska to southern Brazil ; breeding throughout temperate North America,and wintering in the West Indies to South FAM. XXXIX. SNIPES, SANDPIPERS, ETC. 249 27. Long-billed Curlew (264. 2^umhihis longirdstris). — Averylarge, long-legged, much-mottled, dark-brown-backed, shore bird,with buify under parts, and a sickle-like, downwardly curved,exceedingly long bill. The head and neck are peculiarly birds, though mainly found along muddy shores and ongrassy meadows, are known to live and breed in upland regionsat a distance from water. (Sickle-bill.) Length, 20-26; wing, 10^ (10-111) ; tail, 4; tarsus, 3; culmen, 2^(young), ol-8h (adult). United States; breeding north to the SouthAtlantic States (casually to New England), and in the interior to Mani-toba, and wintering from the Gulf States to the West Indies. 28. Hudsonian Curlew (265. Nuinhuushudsdnicus). —A large,common, nuuh-mottled, generally brownish, shore bird, withwhitish belly, and a long, sickle-like, downwardlycurved, slender is a smaller,but more commonbird than th
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