. Birds of Massachusetts and other New England states. Birds; Birds. SANDPIPERS 419 Haunts and Habits. This straggler from the Old World may occur here more often than the records indicate. Apparently it has been taken and recorded at least twenty- five times on the Atlantic coast of the United States and no one knows how many captures have gone unrecorded. A late record is that of a bird in typical winter plumage taken by Mr. L. A. Fuertes, December 19, 1923, Fishers Island, New When found it is likely to be with flocks of Red-backed Sandpipers and might readily pass unnoticed among th
. Birds of Massachusetts and other New England states. Birds; Birds. SANDPIPERS 419 Haunts and Habits. This straggler from the Old World may occur here more often than the records indicate. Apparently it has been taken and recorded at least twenty- five times on the Atlantic coast of the United States and no one knows how many captures have gone unrecorded. A late record is that of a bird in typical winter plumage taken by Mr. L. A. Fuertes, December 19, 1923, Fishers Island, New When found it is likely to be with flocks of Red-backed Sandpipers and might readily pass unnoticed among them in autumn, when it resembles them closely. It frequents beaches, tide fiats and estuaries and more rarely interior waters, and feeds on small crustaceans, worms and insects. As more specimens have been taken in Massachusetts than in any other state we may look for its occurrence here again. Economic Status. See page 372. Ereunetes pusillus (Linnaeus). Semipalmated Sandpiper. Other names: peep ; sand peep ; beach peep ; bumble-bee peep ; hawk's eye ; oxeye. Plate 28. Description. — Very small, with distinct basal web between front toes; bill rather short, as in Least Sandpiper, but not so slender; tail doubly emarginate. Adults in breeding plumage (sexes alike): Above light grayish-brown; sides of cap and some feathers of back and scapulars often but not always tinged pale buffy-cinnamon; top of head heavily streaked and back heavily spotted black; rump, middle upper tail-coverts and two middle tail-feathers dusky, feathers of rump narrowly margined brownish-gray; outer upper tail-coverts mostly white; all but middle tail-feathers brownish-gray, narrowly edged whitish at ends; wing- coverts mainly brownish-gray, darkest at shafts, narrowly edged paler or whitish around tips; greater coverts narrowly tipped white; primary coverts and flight- feathers dusky; outermost primary white-shafted, rest with partly white shafts; streaked white stripe over eye, dusky space before eye
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