. North American shore birds; a history of the snipes, sandpipers, plovers and their allies, inhabiting the beaches and marshes of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the prairies and the shores of the inland lakes and rivers of the North American continent . RICAN SHORE BIRDS. width on back and scapulars, and the margins grayish buff; wing-coverts,brown, margined with grayish white; primaries, dark brown, shaft of firstone white ; rump and upper tail-coverts, brownish black, margined withbuff; side feathers of the coverts, white, with U-shaped black markings;middle tail-feathers, dark brown; rem
. North American shore birds; a history of the snipes, sandpipers, plovers and their allies, inhabiting the beaches and marshes of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the prairies and the shores of the inland lakes and rivers of the North American continent . RICAN SHORE BIRDS. width on back and scapulars, and the margins grayish buff; wing-coverts,brown, margined with grayish white; primaries, dark brown, shaft of firstone white ; rump and upper tail-coverts, brownish black, margined withbuff; side feathers of the coverts, white, with U-shaped black markings;middle tail-feathers, dark brown; remainder, pale grayish brown, mar-gined with white ; sides of head and breast, buff, streaked narrowly withdark brown; throat, abdomen, sides, and under tail-coverts, pure white; bill,feet, and tarsus, black. Length, 7j^ inches; wing, 4^; culmen, ^f—I;tarsus, about I inch. Adult in Winter.—Does not differ much from the bird in summerplumage, the most noticeable variation being the feathers of the upperparts, which are margined with grayish white, giving a general gray hue tothis part of the plumage; the head is more gray and lacks the dark buffseen in the summer specimens. In other respects there is no appreciabledifference in the seasonal 23. Least Sandpiper. LEAST SANDPIPER. EVERYWHERE throughout the land where suitablelocalities are found, the Peep, congregated in flocks,is met with, migrating to the northward in May and re-appearing in its accustomed haunts in July. On marshymeadows, the shores of creeks, rivers, and lakes, on fieldsof drifting seaweed, and, though not so often, on sandybeaches, the Least Sandpiper is one of the most abundantof our waders. Confiding and gentle in disposition, itbetrays no fear of man, and goes quietly about its busi-ness picking up its minute articles of food (even whenthe observer stands within a few feet of it), uttering thewhile its low, sweet note. On taking wing, the birdsmass closely together, fly swiftly, often in an an err
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