. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush;. Birds; Birds. FA3I. 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^-3^. Western North America; breeding in t
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush;. Birds; Birds. FA3I. 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^-3^. Western North America; breeding in the Arctic regions, migrating south through the western United States (including the Mississippi Valley), and wintering in Mexico and possibly South America. 5. Stilt Sandpiper (233. Micropdlama himdntopus). — 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 slowr moving as com- pared writh other sand- pipers, and is more apt to squat than fly when disturbed. Stilt Sandpiper Length, 7^-91; wing, 5i; tail, 2£; tarsus, 1|; culmen, lf-lf. Eastern North America; breeding far north, and wintering from the West Indies to South America. 6. Knot (234. Tringa canutus). — 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 beautifullv 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, Austin Craig, 1838- [from old catalog]. New York, Cincinnati [etc. ] American book company
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