. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush . Stilt Sandpiper 11 _1 3 from Easternthe West XorthIndies America;to South 6. Knot (234. Trutr/a caniitus). — A very large and, as usuallyseen in the United States, mottled, gray-backed, white-bellied,plover-like sandpiper, with more or less of a red, robin-likebreast. The back and wings are more beautifully marked in 240 KEY AXD DESCIilPTION. Knot the summer than in the winter with black, brown, and buft. The young has the breast finely spotted or streaked with black-is
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush . Stilt Sandpiper 11 _1 3 from Easternthe West XorthIndies America;to South 6. Knot (234. Trutr/a caniitus). — A very large and, as usuallyseen in the United States, mottled, gray-backed, white-bellied,plover-like sandpiper, with more or less of a red, robin-likebreast. The back and wings are more beautifully marked in 240 KEY AXD DESCIilPTION. Knot the summer than in the winter with black, brown, and buft. The young has the breast finely spotted or streaked with black-ish, and the flanksbarred or streakedwith the same. Theknot is found onm u d d y flats andsandy beaches, prob-ing the ground, likethe true snipe, forits food, which con-sists of crustaceansand mollusks. Theknots bunch veryclosely when decoyed, and so numbers can be killed by a single discliarge. (Robin Snipe.) Length, lOJ ; wing, OJ ; tail, 2|; tarsus, IJ ; culmen. 1|. Nearly allcoasts ; breeding in the Arctic regions, and wintering from Florida to SouthAmerica. 7. Purple Sandpiper (1*3;). Tringa marlthna). — A northernsandpiper, with grayish-puride to asliy head, breast, and back;white throat, and whitisli, somewhat streaked belly. The ashybreast is one of the most constant of its i)eculiarities. is ^ inch longer than the tarsus, and the tibia is featheredto the joint. It has a fondness for rocky shores, where it se-cures its food from among the se
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