. Handbook of birds of eastern North America . ned with rufous, thecenters of the feathers black, wings brownish gray; breast whitish, lightlystreaked with blackish ; middle of the belly with a large black patch, lowerbelly white. Im.—Upper parts blackish, the feathers with rounded tips ofrufous or buffy; breast washed with buffy and indistinctly streaked withblackish; belly spotted with black. Winter plumage.—Upper parts brown-ish gray; middle upper tail-coverts fuscous; wing-coverts brownish graymargined with buffy; throat white; breast ashy, indistinctly streaked; belly SNIPES, SANDPIPERS,
. Handbook of birds of eastern North America . ned with rufous, thecenters of the feathers black, wings brownish gray; breast whitish, lightlystreaked with blackish ; middle of the belly with a large black patch, lowerbelly white. Im.—Upper parts blackish, the feathers with rounded tips ofrufous or buffy; breast washed with buffy and indistinctly streaked withblackish; belly spotted with black. Winter plumage.—Upper parts brown-ish gray; middle upper tail-coverts fuscous; wing-coverts brownish graymargined with buffy; throat white; breast ashy, indistinctly streaked; belly SNIPES, SANDPIPERS, ETC. 161 white, the sides sometimes spotted with black. L., 8-00 ; W., 4-75 ; Tar., 1*00;B., 1-50. KemarTcs.—There is, of course, every degree of intergradation betweensummer and winter plumage, but the species may always be known by itsslightly curved bill. Range.—North America, breeding in the arctic regions and wintering fromFlorida southward ; rare in the interior. Washington, rare T. V., Apl.; Oct. Long Island, T. V., uncommon in. Fig. C3.—Red-backed Sandpiper. (Natural size.) spring, Apl. 1 to May 15; common in fall, Aug. 31 through Oct. Sing Sing,tolerably common T. V. in fall, Oct. 3 to Oct. 24. Cambridge, casual, oneinstance, Oct, Egcjs.^ three to four, varying from pale, bluish white to ochraceous-buff,heavily marked with chocolate, chietiy at the larger end, 1-43 x IOl. Generally speaking, this is a shore or beach bird, though it alsovisits grassy marshes. It flies and feeds in flocks, and is an unsus-picious, rather stupid little Snipe, less active than most members ofthis family. The gray-plumaged fall birds are known as Leadbacks,while in the spring they go by the names Blackbreast or Redback. The Dunlin { Tringa alpina\ is the Old-World representative of ourRed-backed Sandpiper, from which it differs only in being less brightlycolored and somewhat smaller. L., about 7*40; W., 4-12-4-50; Tar.,-78-90;B., 1-05-1-25. It is of casual occurrence in Nort
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