. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . t with a much shorter bill. Insummer the entire under parts are a uniform red-dish chestnut color. They are known to breedin Arctic America, from Point Barrow and Hud-son Bay, northward, but no authentic eggs areknown, at present, to exist in collections. Onetaken from a bird by Lieut. Greely, was a peagreen color, specked with brown; size it was not fully developed, it was probablycorrect neither as to size nor color. 235. Purpl
. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . t with a much shorter bill. Insummer the entire under parts are a uniform red-dish chestnut color. They are known to breedin Arctic America, from Point Barrow and Hud-son Bay, northward, but no authentic eggs areknown, at present, to exist in collections. Onetaken from a bird by Lieut. Greely, was a peagreen color, specked with brown; size it was not fully developed, it was probablycorrect neither as to size nor color. 235. Purple Sandpiper. Arquatella maritimamaritima. Range.—Arctic regions, wintering south to theMiddle States and the Great Lakes, but chieflyon the coast. A grayish and blackish colored species, aboutnine inches long. It nests in northern Labrador,about Hudson Bay andin Iceland. Its eggs area grayish buff colorhandsomely splashedwith rich shades ofbrown and obscuremarkings of darkergray. Data. — North-ern Iceland, June 7,1897. Four eggs. Nesta hollow in the ground Grayish buff, among grass and weeds and lined with a fewgrasses. Collector, C.
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