Plate CCLXXXIV. Fig. 1. Adult in summer. Fig. 2. In winter.
Bill deep orange, dusky toward the end; feet light orange. Head
greyish-brown, tinged with purple, its sides and those of the neck
deep purple; back and wings brownish-black, with purple gloss, the
margins of the feathers white; quills brownish-black, their shafts,
the tips of all the secondaries, and the greater part of the middle
ones, white; middle tail-feathers brownish-black, tinged with purple,
the lateral shaded with ash-grey; upper part of throat greyish-white,
fore neck grey; breast, sides, and abdomen white. In winter, the lower
parts are pale grey, the upper parts have the purplish tints much
fainter, the white edgings substituted by dull grey.
_Male_, 9-1/2, 14-3/4.
Abundant from Maine to New York, in autumn and spring. Breeds in
Hudson's Bay, and on Melville Island.
Tringa maritima, Bonap. Syn. p. 318.
Tringa maritima, Purple Sandpiper, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor.
Amer. v. ii. p. 382.
Purple Sandpiper, Tringa maritima, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p.
558.