. British birds with their nests and eggs . f Europe, in Heligoland. Its main breeding range is the High North of the American Continent, butit has been found (and probably breeds) in Kamtschatka, near Behring Straits, andfurther west, by Von IMiddendorf, in the sea of Okhotsk. It might be expectedto occur, therefore, on migration, on the east coast of Asia, but it has not yetbeen reported thence, nor has it been found in Greenland. It occurs on migrationall over the United States and the West Indies, wintering in South America downto about lat. S. 35. With us it occurs mostly in autumn, but t
. British birds with their nests and eggs . f Europe, in Heligoland. Its main breeding range is the High North of the American Continent, butit has been found (and probably breeds) in Kamtschatka, near Behring Straits, andfurther west, by Von IMiddendorf, in the sea of Okhotsk. It might be expectedto occur, therefore, on migration, on the east coast of Asia, but it has not yetbeen reported thence, nor has it been found in Greenland. It occurs on migrationall over the United States and the West Indies, wintering in South America downto about lat. S. 35. With us it occurs mostly in autumn, but the Heligolandspecimen was shot in May. Description of adult: upper parts sooty-black, with broad buff-brown edges toall the feathers, largely obscuring the black; primaries browner, their tips, andthose of the brown tail feathers, with a faint greenish gloss in certain lights; theinner web of the priinaries mottled mid blotched with black, upon white, especiallytowards their tips; sides of head and under surface of the body warm buff, with. cc CL DuQZ< QtiJh <UJ 03 I u. DCD ^ 1
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