SPOTTED TATLER, or PEET WEET. 



(Totanus 7iiacuhi rill s,T EMM. Bonap. Syn. No. 264. Spotted Sand- 

 piper, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 473. No. 38-3. Wilsox, vii. p. GO. 

 pi. 59. fig. 1. [adult] Spotted Tringa, (Trlnga maculata.) Ed- 

 wards, pi. 277. lo\ver figvire. Phil. Museum, No. 4056.) 



Sp. Charact. — Glossy olive brown, waved with dusky; rump and 

 tail of the same color with the rest of the plumage ; one or more 

 outer tail feathers white, barred witli black; quills dark olive 

 brown, with a large white spot on the inner web — Adult, beneath 

 white, with roundish dusky spots ; bill yellow below, black towards 

 the tip. — Young, beneath white ; wing coverts edged, but not 

 barred, v.'ith waving dusky lines ; upper mandible blackish. 



The Peet Wcet, is one of the most familiar and common 

 of all the New England marsh birds, arriving along our 

 river shores and low meadows, about the beginning of May, 

 from their mild or tropical winter quarters, in Mexico, and 

 probably the adjoining islands of the West Indies. By the 

 '20th of April, Wilson observed their arrival on the shores 

 of the large rivers in the state of Pennsylvania. They 

 micrrate and breed from the Middle States, in all probability, 



