. American game birds . PECTORAL SANDPIPERUPLAND PLOVER 33. WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS (Pisobia fuscicollis) are placed by sports-men in that class of small species known asPeeps, too small to be worth the taking,the present species measuring but little morethan 7 in. in length. Yet they have theirdangers, for youthful hunters, unable tostalk larger game, often practice on these andI have known of men old enough to knowbetter, to fire into flocks of Peeps just tosee how many they could get. They breedon our Arctic coast and migrate most abun-dantly through the Mississippi Valley, butalso in numbe
. American game birds . PECTORAL SANDPIPERUPLAND PLOVER 33. WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS (Pisobia fuscicollis) are placed by sports-men in that class of small species known asPeeps, too small to be worth the taking,the present species measuring but little morethan 7 in. in length. Yet they have theirdangers, for youthful hunters, unable tostalk larger game, often practice on these andI have known of men old enough to knowbetter, to fire into flocks of Peeps just tosee how many they could get. They breedon our Arctic coast and migrate most abun-dantly through the Mississippi Valley, butalso in numbers along the Atlantic coast tosouthern South America. The upper birdshows this species in its summer plumage;it is a trifle grayer in winter, being about thesame color as the bird below, from which it isof course easily identified by the white rumppatch; the breast of the present species isalso more heavily streaked than that of thenext. BAIRD SANDPIPER (Pisobia bairdi). This species, which has a dark rump, is of the 4 Wj^L same size as the last. Either k
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