. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . 147 THE BIRD BOOK. White-rumped SandpiperLeast Sandpiper. 240. White-rujmped fuscicollis. Range.—North America, breeding from Labra-dor and southern Greenland, northward and win-tering from central to Southern South America;most common on the Atlantic coast. This species is inches in length, and haswhite upper tail coverts; otherwise it is markedsimilarly to the preceding Sandpiper. Its nest-ing habits ar
. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . 147 THE BIRD BOOK. White-rumped SandpiperLeast Sandpiper. 240. White-rujmped fuscicollis. Range.—North America, breeding from Labra-dor and southern Greenland, northward and win-tering from central to Southern South America;most common on the Atlantic coast. This species is inches in length, and haswhite upper tail coverts; otherwise it is markedsimilarly to the preceding Sandpiper. Its nest-ing habits are the same as those of the majorityof the family, and ;the three or four eggs that theylay cannot be distinguished from those of the fol-lowing species. Size x .90. These are oneof the most common of the beach birds alongthe Atlantic coast during migrations; they arevery often known as Bonaparte Sandpipers. 241. B.\irds S.^ndpiper. Pisobia bairdi. Range.—North America, chiefly in the interior,breeding along the Arctic coast and about Hud-son Bay, and wintering south of the UnitedStates. A very similar species to the preceding, butwithout the white rump. Th
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