. A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada . tail-feathers dusky, others gray ; chest tinged witli buffand streaked with dusky, other under parts white; bill and feet blackLength about 7^ inches. Nest. On the margin of a lake or pond ; a slight depression, hidden bytall grass and lined with leaves and grass. Eggs. 4; huffish or creamy, spotted with rich reddish brown ; Bairds Sandpiper was described by Coues in i86i from speci-mens taken in the West, and it was not until 1870 that the bird wasknown to occur on the Atlantic. Up to the present a few examplesonl
. A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada . tail-feathers dusky, others gray ; chest tinged witli buffand streaked with dusky, other under parts white; bill and feet blackLength about 7^ inches. Nest. On the margin of a lake or pond ; a slight depression, hidden bytall grass and lined with leaves and grass. Eggs. 4; huffish or creamy, spotted with rich reddish brown ; Bairds Sandpiper was described by Coues in i86i from speci-mens taken in the West, and it was not until 1870 that the bird wasknown to occur on the Atlantic. Up to the present a few examplesonly have been captured to the eastward of the Mississippi valley,and very little is known of the birds distribution. Reports fromdifferent sections of the country lend probability to the conclusionthat the bulk of these Sandpipers migrate across the Great Plainsand nest along the Mackenzie River valley north of latitude 60°and in Alaska. They are abundant on the plains and amid thefoot hills of the Rockies. In winter they range to Chili and theArgentine SEMI-PALMATED pusillus. Char. Feet with two webs extending about half-way up the parts mottled brownish gray, tinged with rufous or huH, each fea-ther with a central stripe of blackish ; rump darker; under parts white,the breast washed with rufous and marked with dusky. In winter plum-age there is no trace of the rufous or buff tints. Length about 6 inches. AVj-/. Usually on the margin of a pool by the sea or an inland pond,— a slight depression scantily lined with leaves and grass; sometimes hid-den in a tussock of grass. ^.^S^- 3~4; P^le gray or with buff, drab, or olive tint, variouslymarked with brown; X Commonly associated with other species of the same size,plumage, and habits, it is not easy to offer any remark con-cerning it which can be considered as exclusive. It is spreadequally over the North American continent, from the confinesof the Arctic circle probably to th
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