Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America

The book that made American bird-watching possible in the field: keys, plumages, songs and habits for every species of the East, by the man who ran ornithology at the American Museum.

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Ad. in summer.--Upper parts black or fuscous, edged and tipped with buffy or rufous; rump and middle upper tail-coverts plain black or fuscous; central tail-feathers black or fuscous, outer ones ashy gray; upper throat white; neck and breast white or buffy, streaked with fuscous; belly and sides white. Im. Similar, but feathers of the back with rounded rufous or buffy tips; breast not distinctly streaked.

Winter plumage. - Upper parts brownish gray, sometimes with more or less black in the centers of the feathers; breast white or ashy, not distinctly streaked. L., 6.00; W., 3.50; Tar., 70; B., 75.

FIG. 62. Least Sandpiper. (Natural size.)

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