. 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 . misphere. Winters south to North Africa, India, etc.;accidental in eastern North America, District of Columbia, Long Island,New York, and Massachusetts. Dunlin is an accidental wanderer here from the OldWorld. Mr. Charl
. 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 . misphere. Winters south to North Africa, India, etc.;accidental in eastern North America, District of Columbia, Long Island,New York, and Massachusetts. Dunlin is an accidental wanderer here from the OldWorld. Mr. Charles J. Paine, Jr., reported the capture of afemale taken at Chatham, Mass., August 11, 1900, by S. Cochrane. It is now in the Brewster collection at Cam-bridge. This is the only record for C. Young of Brooklyn secured a specimen, September15, 1892, at Shinnecock Bay, Long Island, N. Y. This speci-men was identified by Mr. F. M. Chapman, of the AmericanMuseum of Natural 1 Howe, Reginald Heber, and Allen, Glover M.: Birds of Massachusetts, 1902, p. 41. 2 Auk, 1893, p. 78. 282 GAME BIRDS, WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS. RED-BACKED SANDPIPER (Pelidna alpina sakhalina). Common or local names: American Dunlin; Brant Bird; Redback; Simpleton; Stib;Crooked-billed Snipe; Crooked-bill; California Peep; Little Blackbreast; Length. — About 8 inches; bill to Adult in Spring. — Back largely rusty or chestnut red, marked slightly withblack and whitish; head (except crown, which is rusty and black), neck,breast and tail light gray, shading into white below and to ashy on tail;head, neck, breast and flanks slightly spotted and streaked; wings grayor ashy, with a white bar; upper belly black; bill long and down-curved. Adult in Fall. — Above ashy gray or brownish gray; top of head and streakthrough eye darker; a light streak over eye; below white; neck andupper breast tinged with gray and streaked with dusky; streaks con-tinued on
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