. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . bird, fond of associating with other species of waders. Itruns rapidly upon the shore, carrying the head down, and fliesrather high and fast, showing the back and breast alternatelyas it wheels in its course. Its food, he says, con
. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . bird, fond of associating with other species of waders. Itruns rapidly upon the shore, carrying the head down, and fliesrather high and fast, showing the back and breast alternatelyas it wheels in its course. Its food, he says, consists of small mollusks, crustaceans,insects, etc., and it is said to swallow the roots of marshplants, to eat small ground fruits and to feed much at night. 1 Samuels, E. A.: Ornithology and Oology of New England, 1867, p. 444. 2 Deane, Ruthven: Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, 1879, p. 124. s Townsend, C. W.: Memoirs of the Nuttall Orn. Club, No. 3, Birda of Essex County, 1905, p. Brewster, William: Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, 1876, pp. 51, Ornithologist and Oologist, July, 1890, Vol. 15, No. 7, p. Knight, Ora W.: The Birds of Maine, 1908, p. 167.» Eaton, E. H.: Birds of New York, 1910, p. 316. 286 GAME BIRDS. WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS. SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER {Ereuneies pusillus).Common or local names: Peep; Sand-peep; Black-legged Peep; Sand ;^I^frS**;^^^^ ■ ■^ Length. — inches; bill of male, .66 to .75; female, .80 to .92. Foot with two evident in Spring. — Above variegated with black, pale bay and ashy or white; a dark line through eye and a white line above it; below white; breast usually rufescent and speckled with black; rest of lower parts white; legs and feet in Fall. — Upper parts grayer; breast with specks faint or — Upper parts mostly ashy gray; under parts white; a slight dusky wash across the unspotted breast; legs and feet greenish Marks. — Distinguished from the Least
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