10* BIRDS. riiESSIUOSTRES. Totanits. 



Spotted Sandpiper, Penu. Brit. Zool. ii. 463. Bewick, Brit. Birds, ii. 1 1 1. 

 Tot. mac. Temm. Orn. ii. 656 — A rare winter visitant. Probably only 

 a straggler. 



Length 8 inches. Bill black, reddish towards the base. Feet flesh-colour- 

 ed. Irides brown. Lores brown, with a white stripe above. Plumage, above, 

 greyish-brown, with a tinge of olive, with streaks of black on the head and 

 neck, and triangular black spots on the back in zig-zag bars. Below white, the 

 ends of each feather having a rounded black spot : these marks are produced 

 on the belly. Quills dusky, the secondaries tipped with white. Hump plain. 

 Tail-feathers, in the middle, greenish-brown, the side ones white, with dusky 

 bars and dark tips — So rare is this bird in England, that Edwards and Be- 

 wick only have succeeded in procuring it. Its history is still involved in much 

 obscurity. 



143. T. Hypoleucos. Common Sandpiper. — Plumage, be- 

 neath, uniformly white ; the four middle tail-feathers plain. 



Tringa minor, Will. Orn. 223 Tr. Hyp. Linn. Svst. i. 250. Penn. Brit. 



Zool. ii. 470 — Tot. Hyp. Temm. Orn. ii. 657-— W, Pibydd y tracth ; 

 S, Killileepie Breeds on the margin of streams. Common. 



Length 8, breadth 16 inches ; weight 2 ounces. Bill 1 \ inches long, dusky. 

 Legs dusky with a tinge of green ; toes flat below, slightly margined, webbed 

 at the base of the first joint. Irides hazel. Plumage, above, bi"*wn, glossed 

 with olive, with a black streak in the middle of each feather ; the wing-covers 

 with minute undulated lines. A white spot above the eyes. Neck with 

 brown streaks. Quills dusky ; the first plain ; the second and nine following 

 with a M'hite spot on the inner web ; the rest with a white band across both 

 webs. Tail fan-shaped, the four middle feathers like the back, slightly cloud- 

 ed ; the four on each side tipped with white, and spotted on the webs Nest 



of dry leaves, under a bank. Eggs 5, dirty white, marked with numerous 

 dusky and cinereous spots, chiefly at the larger end. Young with the margin 

 of the feathers on the back reddish — This species, as a summer visitant, is 

 extensively distributed on the margins of rivers and lakes during summer. 

 It breed as far to the northward as Caithness, but seems to be wanting in 

 Orkney. 



144. T. Glottis. Greenshank. — Bill strong, slightly recur- 

 ved, compressed at the base, higher than broad ; under wing- 

 covers with brown rays ; feet green. 



Pluvialis major, Will. Orn. 220 — Scolopax glottis, Linn. Syst. i. 245. 



Pe?m. Brit. Zool. ii. 445 Tot. Glot. Temm. Orn. ii. 659. — A winter 



visitant. 



Length 14, breadth 24 inches ; weight 6 oz. Bill 1\ inches long, dusky; 

 legs slender, green. Irides hazel. Plumage, above, brownish-black, on the 

 head marked with black and white rays ; a white circle round the eyes ; back 

 and scapulars deep black, the former with white edges, the latter with white 

 spots. Beneath white, with oval spots on the breast. Wing-covers reddish -ash, 

 with black stripes. Quills 26, dusky, inner webs spotted with white. Under 

 covers with brown rays. Tail white, the two middle feathers cinereous, with 

 brownish bands. Lower part of the back and rump white. In winter, the 



spots on the breast are indistinct, and the back has a brownish tinge Nest 



unknown Frequents the sea-coast in small flocks. 



Montagu (Suppl. Orn. Diet.) has offered a conjecture, which appears very 

 probable, that the Cinereous Godwit of Pennant (Brit. Zool. ii. 444.), the Sco- 

 lopax canescens of Gmelin, is merely a variety of the Greenshank. Pennant 

 says, " The bill was two inches and a half long. The head, neck, and back 

 variegated with ash colour and white: the tail slightly barred with cinereous. 

 The throat and breast white; the last marked with a few ash-coloured spots. 

 The legs long, slender, and ash-colourcd. This was about the size of my 



