. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. TRYNGITES RUFESCENS : BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 247 color — ashy-brown, blackening at end, extreme tip white, most of the inner webs of the primaries, and both webs of the second- aries pearly-white, speckled, clouded and marbled with black. Upper parts brownish-black with a greenish-gloss, each feather edged with tawny or yellowish-brown, giving the prevailing tone. Under parts buif or fawn-colored, unmarked excepting a few blackish specks on the breast. Central ta
. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. TRYNGITES RUFESCENS : BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 247 color — ashy-brown, blackening at end, extreme tip white, most of the inner webs of the primaries, and both webs of the second- aries pearly-white, speckled, clouded and marbled with black. Upper parts brownish-black with a greenish-gloss, each feather edged with tawny or yellowish-brown, giving the prevailing tone. Under parts buif or fawn-colored, unmarked excepting a few blackish 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, usually some black marbling or streaking. Length, : extent about ; wing, ; tail, ; bill along culmen ; along gape, ; tarsus, ; middle toe and claw, A curious little Sandpiper, of general distribution in North America, apparently nowhere very common. It is a spring and autumn migrant only in New England, quite rare in the spring, less so in the fall. It is easily recog- nized by its special form, and the curious mottling ^^°- S7--Head of Buff-breasted ^ Sandpiper. of the wing-feathers, the pattern of which is best displayed from the under side. It 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 the Buff-breasted Sandpiper," says Coues, " I have examined about a dozen sets in the Smithsonian, all collected by Mr. MacFarlane in the Anderson River region and along the Arctic coast to the eastward. They are very pointedly pyriform. The following measurements indi- cate the size, shape, and limits of variation : X ; X ; X ; X The ground is. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have
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