. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Western Solitary Sandpiper. Taken in Santa Barbara A GLIMPSE OF A SOLITARY SANDPIPER THE SMALLER BIRD IS A BAIRD SANDPIPER Photo by the Author with light grayish brown. Immature: Like adult in winter, but colors still more blended, the spotting of the back pale cinnamon instead of white; no streakings on head and neck. Length (); wing (); tail 57 (); bill (); tarsus ()- Recognition Marks.—To
. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Western Solitary Sandpiper. Taken in Santa Barbara A GLIMPSE OF A SOLITARY SANDPIPER THE SMALLER BIRD IS A BAIRD SANDPIPER Photo by the Author with light grayish brown. Immature: Like adult in winter, but colors still more blended, the spotting of the back pale cinnamon instead of white; no streakings on head and neck. Length (); wing (); tail 57 (); bill (); tarsus ()- Recognition Marks.—Towhee size; olive-brown with white speckling. To be carefully distinguished from Actitis macularia by its somewhat larger size and slimmer build, as well as by the absence of spotting on the belly. Weet, weet note a little sharper than that of A. macularia. Nesting.—Not yet distinguished from that of T. s. solitaria.— (Does not breed in California). Eggs: 4; pointed ovate; white with a pinkish, bluish, or greenish tinge, sharply and rather finely but sparingly spotted with chocolate and deep vinaceous gray; deposited in old nest of Robin, Grackle, or other species, in sapling or tree. Av. of 8 eggs in M. C. O. coll.: x ( x .98); index 71. Season: c. June 1st; one brood. Range of Tringa solitaria.—The Americas, breeding in cold, temperate, and sub- Arctic regions of North America; migrating through the West Indies and Middle America to Argentina and Peru. Range of T. s. cinnamomea.—Imperfectly distinguished from that of T. s. solitaria, but probably comprises all breeding territory west of Longitude 110 West, and in general the Pacific section of the Americas. Breeds, thus, from northern Alberta (where alone authentic nests with eggs of any form of solitaria have been taken) to northwestern Alaska, and winters south to Peru. Occurrence in California.—Not common migrant, but appears both coastwise and throughout the interior, chiefly in early autumn. Aut
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