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The Coinmou Sandpiper of Europe (T. hypoleucus'),'^ the only other known species of the genus, 

 greatly resembles the American Spotted Sandpiper (T. macularius) , but is entirely unspotted 

 beneath, and otherwise different. 



Tringoides macularius. 



THE SPOTTED SANDPIPER, 



Tringa macularia, LiNX. S. N. 1. 1766, 249 (based on Tringa maculata, Edw. II. 139, pi. 277, fig. 2 ; 



Tardus aquaticus, Briss. V. 255). — Wilson, Am. Orn. VII. 1813, 60, pi. 59, fig. 1. 

 Totanus macularius, Temm. Man. 1815, 422. — ISTutt. Man. II. 1834, 162. — Aud. Orn. Biog. IV. 



1838, 81, pi. 310 ; Syiiop. 1839, 242 ; B. Am. V. 1842, 303, pi. 342. 

 Tringoides viacularius, Quay, Gen. B. III. 1849, 574. — Cass, in Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 735. — 



Baiud, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 543. — Coues, Key, 1872, 260 ; Check List, 1873, no. 436 ; 2d 



ed. 1882, no, 638 ; Birds N. W. 1874, 501. — RiDGW. Xom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 557. 

 " Tringa notata, Illigee" (Gray). 

 Aditis JViedi, BoxAP. {fide Gray). 



Hab. The whole of North and Middle America, and South America as far as Brazil ; occa- 

 sional in Europe ; no Greenland record. Breeds throughout temperate North America. 



Sp. Char. Small ; bill rather longer than the head, straight, slender ; long grooves in both 

 mandibles ; wing rather long, pointed ; tail medium, rounded ; legs rather long, lower third of 

 the tibia naked ; toes long, margined, and flattened underneath, outer connected with the middle 

 toe by a large membrane, inner very sliglitly connected to the middle toe. Adult: Upper parts 

 greenish ashy, with a somewhat metallic or bronzed lustre, and with numerous sagittate, lanceolate, 

 and irregular, mostly transverse, spots of brownish black, having the same lustre. Line over the 

 eye and entire under parts white, with numerous circular and oval sj^ots of brownish black over 

 the whole lower surface, smaller on the throat, largest on the abdomen. Primaries plain dusky ; 

 tail dark ashy, the outer feathers with dusky and white transverse spots on their terminal portion ; 

 axillars immaculate white. Young : Above, greenish ashy, the wings with narrow transverse bars 

 of black and ochraceous, most numerous on the coverts. Beneath, white, without any spots, and 

 with an ashy suffusion across the jugulum. Dovmy chid- : Above, yellowdsh gray, with a narrow 



1 Tringoides hypoleucus. The Common Sandpiper of Europe. 



Tringa hypoleucos, Linn. S. N. ed. 10, 1758, 149 ; ed. 12, I. 1766, 250. 



Aditis luj2mleiicus, Boie, Isis, 1822, 649. — Nafm. Vog. DeutschL VIII. 1836, 7, pi. 194. — Keys. 



& Blas. Wirb. Eur. p. 73. 

 Tringoides liyiioleuea. Gray, List Gen. 1841, 88. 

 Tringa leiicnptcra, Palt,, Zoogr. 11.1831, 196. 

 Totanus guinctta, Leach, .Syst. Cat. Br. Mus. 30. 

 Aditis cinclus, Boie, Isis, 1826, 327. 

 Aditis stagnalis, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. 649. 

 Common Sandpiper, Moxt. Om. Diet. ; Bewick, Yarrell, et AuCT. 



