LEAST SANDPIPER
242. Pisobia minutilla. 6 in.
Smallest of our sandpipers. Upperparts blackish, edged with bright chestnut; breast and sides ashy-gray, conspicuously streaked with dusky.
Notes.—A musical whistle, “peet-weet.”
Nest.—A grass lined hollow; eggs grayish, heavily blotched with blackish brown (1.15 × .80).
Range.—Breeds from Nova Scotia and northern British Columbia northward; winters from the Gulf States and California southward.