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PECTORAL SANDPIPER.
TRING./1 PECTORALIS.
Plate XXIII. Fig. 2.
Pelidna pdoralis, SAY, in Long'8   I, p. 171.
Tnga pee orali, NOB. Cat. Birds  . S. ID. Synops. sp. 250. ID. Speech. comp.
Tringa campetrise? LICET. Cat. II, Vogel. p. 74, sp. 764.
Tinga cinclus doininieensi.? BIusa. Av. V, p. 219, sp. 12, pl. 24, fig. 1.
Chorlito a cou brnm  AZARA, IV, p. 284, sp. 404.
Ye de mer de St. Domfinue, BRISS. Im. cit.
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several other Si
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marked, though closely allied to
is well as I can judge, accurately
described and figured by Brisson; but since then unnoticed even
by compilers, his description had become obsolete, when Say
found the bird in the western territory, and we replaced it in the
records of the science. We have since shot it repeatedly on the
shores of New Jersey, where it is common. The species appears
to be spread throughout the States, extending farther into the
interior than most of its family: beyond the Mississippi it is very
on; many flocks of them were seen by Major Long's party
bot in the spring and autumn at Engineer Cantonment, and it
is often met with in small parties on the coasts of the middle
states in the latter part of autumn. It also inhabits the West
Indies, and, if we are correct in our reference to Azara, is found
in Brazil and Montevideo.
Unlike other Sandpipers, this is not addicted to bare sandy
places, but on the contrary is fond of damp meadows, where it
some of the habits of the Snipe. Solitary individuals are
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