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Range (Interior of North America)

Interior of North America, breeding in the arctic regions and migrating southward to South America; rare on the Atlantic coast. Washington, casual, one record. Long Island, casual, Aug. Eggs, three to four, light, creamy buff, sometimes tinged with rusty, thickly speckled and spotted with deep reddish brown or chestnut, 1.30 × 93 (Ridgw.).

SNIPES, SANDPIPERS, ETC. "In habits they are similar to the White-rumped (which they so closely resemble), but are more inclined to wander from the water's edge. I have flushed the birds on high prairie lands, at least a mile from the water" (Goss). 242. Tringa minutilla Vieill. LEAST SANDPIPER; MEADOW OXEYE;