. New England bird life: being a manual of New England ornithology; . xtensive, andend of bill not dilated or sensitive. Tarsus longer than middletoe and claw; toes cleft to the base, or with only the mostrudimentary basal webbing. Primaries peculiarly marbled in TRYNGITES RUFESCENS : BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 247 color — ashy-brown, blackening at end, extreme tip white, mostof the inner webs of the primaries, and both webs of the second-aries pearly-white, speckled, clouded and marbled with parts brownish-black with a greenish-gloss, each featheredged with tawny or yellowish-brown,
. New England bird life: being a manual of New England ornithology; . xtensive, andend of bill not dilated or sensitive. Tarsus longer than middletoe and claw; toes cleft to the base, or with only the mostrudimentary basal webbing. Primaries peculiarly marbled in TRYNGITES RUFESCENS : BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 247 color — ashy-brown, blackening at end, extreme tip white, mostof the inner webs of the primaries, and both webs of the second-aries pearly-white, speckled, clouded and marbled with parts brownish-black with a greenish-gloss, each featheredged with tawny or yellowish-brown, giving the prevailing parts buff or fawn-colored, unmarked excepting a fewblackish specks on the breast. Central tail-feathers greenish-brown, blackening at the end, the others paler, often rufescent,with white or tawny tips and black subterminal bar ; also, usuallysome black marbling or streaking. Length, : extentabout ; wing, ; tail, ; bill along culmen ;along gape, ; tarsus, ; middle toe and claw, Fig. 57. — Head of Buff-breastedSandpiper. A curious little Sandpiper, of general distribution inNorth America, apparently nowhere very common. Itis a spring and autumnmigrant only in NewEngland, quite rare inthe spring, less so in thefall. It is easily recog-nized by its special form,and the curious mottlingof the wing-feathers, thepattern of which is best displayed from the under appears to be most nearly related to the Bartramian,with the habits of which its own to some extent corre-spond. Of the very rare and scarcely known eggs of theBuff-breasted Sandpiper, says Coues, I have examinedabout a dozen sets in the Smithsonian, all collected byMr. MacFarlane in the Anderson River region andalong the Arctic coast to the eastward. They are verypointedly pyriform. The following measurements indi-cate the size, shape, and limits of variation : X ; X ; X I-02 ; X The ground is
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