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Range (Nearly cosmopolitan breeds)

Nearly cosmopolitan; breeds in the arctic regions, and in America winters from Florida to Brazil. Long Island, common T. V., May 5 to June 5; Aug. 1 to Oct. 15. Sing Sing, A. V.

Eggs, three to four, light buffy olive, spotted and speckled with dark brown and brownish black or deep black, 2.04 × 1:43 (Ridgw.). The following notes are abridged from Mr. Mackay's extended account of the habits of this species (Auk, ix, 1892, pp. 143-152). They are in a great degree tide birds, and seek a large part of their food on sand-flats left by the receding water. As the tide rises they resort to adjoining marshes or uplands, beaches, or the exposed crests of sandbars. In migrating they fly in lines and also in ranks, like Ducks and