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THE SOLITARY TATLER. 



TOTANUS CHLOROPYGIUS. 

 PLATE XCIII. FIG. 210. 



(STATE COLLECTION.) 



Totanus chloropygius, Vieillot. 



Tringn solitaria. Wilson, Am. Orn. Vol. 7, p. 53, pi. 58, fig. 3. 



T. glareolus. Ord, reprint, p. 57. 



T. Moropysius. Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y. Vol. 2, p. 325. Richardson, F. B. A. Vol. 2, p. 393. 



T. id. Nuttall, Manual Ornith. Vol. 2, p. 159. 



T. solilaria. Audubon, B. of A. Vol. 5, p. 309, pi. 343. Giraud, Birds of Long island, p. 256. 



Characteristics. Olive brown, with light green reflections, and spotted with whitish. 

 Rump and middle tail-feathers brown. Tail white, broadly barred 

 with blackish. Quills and their shafts brownish black. Length, 8"0. 



Description. Bill slender, straight, flexible, the tip slightly turned over, 1 ■ 25 long. Tibia 

 bare for half its length. Outer web largest. First and second quills nearly equal. Tail 

 short, slightly rounded. 



Color. Bill black, tinged with green : feet light greenish. A line of dull white from the 

 mandible over the eye. General color above is deep brown, with greenish reflections ; the 

 feathers tipped and edged with small white spots. Head and neck greyish brown. Chin 

 and throat greyish ; the sides streaked with brown. Beneath light grey, occasionally obscurely 

 undulated with darker. Axillaries barred with dusky : middle tail-feathers, on their edges, 

 slightly spotted with white. 



Length, 7* 5 -8- 5. 



This little bird is, as its name indicates, a solitary and shy species. It is called the Green- 

 rump Toiler, Wood Tatler, and the Jack Snipe, in various places in the interior. Its breed- 

 ing is almost coextensive with its geographical range, having been observed from Louisiana 

 to the Fur countries. It appears in this State in May, and leaves us in September. The 

 eggs are greenish yellow, with umber spots more numerous in a circle about the larger end. 

 Ranges from Mexico to the sixty-first parallel. 



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