Identifier: cu31924022528685 (find matches)
Title: The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Dawson, William Leon, 1873- Jones, Lynds, b. 1865
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Columbus, The Wheaton Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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io. Nest, on the ground. Eggs, 3-4, olive-buff or ashy brown, distinctly marked with large spots of rich umber brown,chiefly about larger end. Av. size, 1.44 x 1.06 (36.6 x 26.9). General Range.—Northern portions of the northern hemisphere; in NorthAmerica chiefly in the northeast portions, breeding in the high north, migratingin winter to the Eastern and Middle States (casually to Florida), the Great Lakes,and the shores of the larger streams in the upper Mississippi Valley. Range in Ohio.—Very rare; one record on Lake Erie. THE responsibility of including this species in a list of Ohio birds stillrests with Mr. Winslow of Cleveland. It is, however, included by ThomasMcllwraith in his Birds of Ontario, on the basis of three or four specimens. The Purple Sandpiper is a strictly maritime species, being found inwinter by preference only on a stern and rock-bound coast. It is verysure-footed, and gleans fearlessly over the most slippery rocks amidst thedashing of the spray. ^C■■^
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THE PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 507 No. 332. PECTORAL SANDPIPER. A. O. U. No. 239. Actodromas maculata (Vieill.). Synonyms.—Grass Snipe; Kribker. Description.—Adult: Above, ground-color, blackish, everywhere heavilymargined, and thus finely streaked, with ochraceous-buff, ochraceous, or rusty,and with some grayish or whitish edging on the larger feathers; darker on crown,where streaked with rusty only; wing-quills dusky, the first primary only withwhite shaft; rump and upper tail-coverts black, delicately tipped with rusty; tailsharply pointed, the central feathers longest,—blackish centrally, brownish graylaterally, with ochraceous or white edging; below, sides of head and neck, fore-neck and breast finely, sharply, and heavily streaked with dusky on a dull whiteor buffy ground; throat and remaining under parts white; bill and feet greenishdiusky. Coloring in zvinter perhaps more blended. There seems to be no con-stant difference between summer and winter plumages,—conflicting author

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