. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. ?46 BIRDS OF AMERICA eyes, catches them deftly as they flee from the disturbance. This bird seems to feed very largely on aquatic insects, small mollusks, etc., but it destroys grasshoppers, moths, and other destruc- tive land insects, some of which it pursues and catches easily on the wing. Edward Howe Forbush. The Western, or Cinnamon, Solitary Sandpiper (Hclodroiiias solitariiis cinuainomciis) is not al- ways distinguishable from the eastern Solitary Sandpiper. It averages larger and the spots on the upper parts are or approach a -cinnamon brown.
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. ?46 BIRDS OF AMERICA eyes, catches them deftly as they flee from the disturbance. This bird seems to feed very largely on aquatic insects, small mollusks, etc., but it destroys grasshoppers, moths, and other destruc- tive land insects, some of which it pursues and catches easily on the wing. Edward Howe Forbush. The Western, or Cinnamon, Solitary Sandpiper (Hclodroiiias solitariiis cinuainomciis) is not al- ways distinguishable from the eastern Solitary Sandpiper. It averages larger and the spots on the upper parts are or approach a -cinnamon brown. It occurs in western North and South .\merica, breeding north of the United States. WILLET Catoptrophorus semipalmatus semipalmatus .\. O. U. Number 258 See Color Plate ^y Other Names.â Semipalmated Snipe; Spanish Plover; Stone Curlew; Duck Snipe; WiU-willet; Pill- will-willet; Bill-willy; Humility; Pied-wing Curlew. General Description.â Length, 16 inches. Color, gray, light below and dark above, with dark markings; a good deal of white on wings, and the rump and upper tail-coverts white. Bill, slender, straight, and longer than head ; toes, webbed at base. Color.âAdults in : General color, ashy, lighter below; crown and back of neck streaked with dusky; shoulders and back with spots and specks of the same color; rump, upper tail-covcrts, and tail, white, the tail barred with narrow traverse streaks of brown; primaries, dusky-brown with a large zi'Iiite space at base, this color invading secondaries; primaries beneath, blackish, the white showing two conspicuous areas in flight; lores, whitish ; a dusky streak from bill to eye ; throat, narrowly streaked; breast and sides, thickly ( Cniclin) marked, with narrow traverse arrowhead bars; bill, bluish-horn, blackening toward tip; legs, pale lavender; iris, brown. .Adults in Winter: Above, light ashy with a tinge of brown, with little or no darker marking; upper tail-coverts, white; wing, similar to summer plumage; belo
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