BAIRD SANDPIPER
241. Pisobia bairdi. 7.5 in.
Of the same, size, form and general coloration as the White-rumped Sandpiper, but the upper tail-coverts are blackish, and the breast is only very faintly streaked.
Range.—Breeds in the Arctic regions, and migrates chiefly through the interior, but to some extent on the coast, south to southern South America.
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).