. A history of the game birds, wild fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states, including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . 10. —Tailof BairdsSandpiper.(After Cory.) 278 CAME BIRDS, WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS. LEAST SANDPIPER (Pisobia minulilla).Common or local names: Peep; Length. — to G inches; bill about .75. Adult in Spring. — Feathers
. A history of the game birds, wild fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states, including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . 10. —Tailof BairdsSandpiper.(After Cory.) 278 CAME BIRDS, WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS. LEAST SANDPIPER (Pisobia minulilla).Common or local names: Peep; Length. — to G inches; bill about .75. Adult in Spring. — Feathers of upper parts black centered, edged with gray,rusty or chestnut; sides of head, neck and breast streaked with brown;belly white; legs and feet dusky greenish or yellowish green. Adult in Fall. — General tone of upper parts ashy. Young. — Upper parts much as in fall adult; breast dusky, very indistinctlystreaked with darker; rest of under parts white; legs greenish yellow. Field Marks. — The smallest Sandpiper; like Semipalmated Sandpiper, butfeet not webbed at all and breast more streaked; legs greenish or yellouish. Notes. — Peep-peep. A simple and trilling whistle (Townsend). Season. — Common to abundant spring and fall migrant coastwise, lesscommon inland; late April to early June; early July to early October;formerly summered on our coast. Range. — North and South America. Breeds from northwestern Alaska,southern arctic islands and northern Ungava to Yakutat Bay, Alaska,valley of Upper Yukon,
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