. Birds of Massachusetts and other New England states. Birds; Birds. TATTLERS 451 Measurements. — Length to in.; spread to ; folded wing to ; tail to ; bill .79 to ; tarsus .86 to Weight about l£ to 2 oz. Female larger than male. Molts. — The young bird after donning juvenal plumage apparently has no autumnal postjuvenal molt. Its winter plumage is merely the worn juvenal, with light feather tips worn off (often even the subterminal bars are lost) and feathers generally faded, leaving upper plumage uniformly olive except a few dusky spots on win
. Birds of Massachusetts and other New England states. Birds; Birds. TATTLERS 451 Measurements. — Length to in.; spread to ; folded wing to ; tail to ; bill .79 to ; tarsus .86 to Weight about l£ to 2 oz. Female larger than male. Molts. — The young bird after donning juvenal plumage apparently has no autumnal postjuvenal molt. Its winter plumage is merely the worn juvenal, with light feather tips worn off (often even the subterminal bars are lost) and feathers generally faded, leaving upper plumage uniformly olive except a few dusky spots on wing-coverts. There is a prenuptial molt (January to April) after which first nuptial plumage is perfected, which closely resembles adults; after a complete postnuptial molt in autumn the young bird assumes adult winter plumage. Adults have the usual partial molt in spring and complete molt in autumn. Field Marks. — In spring plumage the white, black-spotted breast is distinctive; in any plumage broad white bar across wing is noticeable in flight; young birds and winter adults are white below with an ashy tint on upper breast; distinguished in this plumage from Solitary Sandpiper by lighter color above, unstreaked breast, and, in flight, by white in wing; extreme lifting and bobbing of head and tail is characteristic. Downy Young Spotted Sand- Voice. — Ordinary cry peet-weet or teeter teet, with many repe- piper titions of either or both syllables; sometimes a "long tremulous About a natural size. w-e-e-e-e-t" (Walter H. Rich), also pip! pip! pip! (J. T. Nichols). Breeding. — In single pairs or in small colonies, along sandy or rocky sea-shores, on banks of rivers and lakes or on uplands, in grass fields, corn fields, potato fields, strawberry beds, etc. at some distance from water or quite near it. Nest: On ground, rocky, stony, sandy, grassy, or cultivated; sometimes in cavity under large rock; a depression, usually slightly lined with grasses, weed-stalks o
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