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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Range (Seacoasts of temperate)

Seacoasts of temperate and tropical America, from New Jersey and Lower California to Patagonia; occasional or accidental on the Atlantic coast north to Massachusetts and Grand Menan.

Long Island, A. V.

Eggs, three to four, buffy white or creamy buff, rather evenly spotted and blotched with chocolate, 2.20 × 1.55.

A not uncommon species from southern New Jersey southward; confined exclusively to the coast. It agrees in habits with other members of this small family. The EUROPEAN OYSTER-CATCHER (285. Hæmatopus ostralegus) is of accidental occurrence in Greenland. GROUSE, BOB-WHITES, ETC.

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