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Range (Eastern North America breeding) (IV)

Eastern North America, breeding in the arctic regions and wintering as far south as the Falkland Islands. Long Island, not uncommon T. V., July 20 to Oct 10. Sing Sing, casual T. V., Sept.

Eggs, three to four, light olive, or olive brownish, spotted (usually rather finely) with deep brown and dull, purplish gray, 1.37 × 94 (Ridgw.). "They frequent the sandy beach as well as the marshy shores upon the coast, but inland seem to prefer the edges of pools of water upon the uplands. They move in small flocks, are very social, often associating with other waders, are not as a rule shy or timid, and, when startled, usually fly but a short distance, drop back, and run about in an unconcerned and heedless manner, picking up the minute forms of life that usually abound in such places, occasionally uttering a rather sharp, piping weet, weet. Their flight is swift and well sustained" (Goss). 241. Tringa bairdii (Coues). BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. Ad. in summer.- Upper parts fuscous; feathers of the crown and nape margined laterally with pale buffy; back and scapulars tipped with pale buffy or brownish gray; middle upper tail-coverts fuscous, sometimes tipped with buffy; central tailfeathers fuscous, margined with whitish, outer ones pale brownish gray; throat white; breast washed with buffy and lightly spotted or streaked with fuscous; sides and belly white. Im. - Similar, but the back, scapulars, and wing-coverts with rounded white tips. (In the winter these tips are more or less worn off.) L., 7.40; W., 4.90; Tar., 90; B., 85.