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Range (Western North America breeds)

Western North America; breeds in the arctic regions, and winters from the Gulf States to South America; occasional on the Atlantic coast. Long Island, uncommon T. V., occurring with E. pusillus. Eggs, three to four, deep cinnamon buffy, sprinkled, speckled, or thickly spotted with bright rusty brown or chestnut, the general aspect decidedly rusty, 1.24 × 87 (Ridgw.).

This western representative of the preceding species is sometimes found on our coasts associated with its eastern relative. In Florida, particularly on the Gulf coast, it occurs in numbers during the winter. SNIPES, SANDPIPERS, ETC. 248. Calidris arenaria (Linn.). SANDERLING; SURF SNIPE. Ad. in summer. Feathers of the upper parts with generally black centers, bordered and sometimes barred with pale rufous and tipped with ashy white; wings fuscous, the basal half of the outer web of the inner primaries white; wing-coverts grayish fuscous, the greater one broadly tipped with white; tail brownish gray, narrowly margined with white; throat and upper breast washed with pale rufous and spotted with blackish; rest of the under parts pure white. Im. in fall. Similar, but upper parts without rufous, glossy black, the feathers sometimes bordered with white, but generally with two white spots at their tips separated by the black of the central part of the feather; nape grayish white, lightly streaked with blackish; under parts pure white, with occasionally a few spots on the breast. Winter plumage.- Upper parts pale brownish gray, wings as in the preceding; under parts pure white. L., 8.00; W., 5.00; Tar., 1.00; B., 1.00.