Plate CCLXV. Male and Female.
Bill not longer than the head, dull olive-green, dusky toward the
point; feet dull yellowish-green; upper parts greyish-yellow, each
feather blackish-brown in the centre; wing-coverts lighter; quills and
coverts light greyish-brown, greenish-black at the end, with the tip
whitish, the inner webs whitish in the greater part of their breadth,
and beautifully dotted with black, in undulating lines; the inner
secondaries like the back; the two middle tail-feathers greyish-brown,
at the end dark brown glossed with green, and slightly margined and
tipped with white, the rest gradually paler to the outer, margined and
tipped with white, within which are two lines of blackish-brown; sides
of the head, fore neck, and sides light yellowish-red, the throat
paler, the sides of the neck and body spotted with brownish-black, the
rest of the lower parts paler and unspotted; lower wing-coverts
white, those near the edge of the wing black in the centre, primary
coverts dotted with black, and having a spot of the same near the end.
_Male_, 8, 18.
Along the Atlantic shores from Maine to New York. Rare. Migratory.
Breeds in high northern latitudes.
Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Tringa rufescens, Nutt. Man. v. ii.
p. 113.
Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Tringa rufescens, Aud. Orn. Biog. v.
iii. p. 451.