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TOTANUS GLAREOLA. WOOD TATLER. 



-WOOD SANDPIPER. 



Tringa Glarcola. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 250. 



Tringa Glarcola.' Lath. Ind. Ore. II. 730. 



Wood Sandpiper. Mont. Orn. Diet, and Supplt. 



Chevalier Sylvain. Totanus Glarcola. Tcnim. Man. d'Ornith. II. 654. 



Totanus Glarcola. Wood Sandpiper. Flem. Brit. Anim. 103: 



Wood Sandpiper. Totanus Glarcola. Selb. Illustr. II. 77. 



Totanus Glarcola. Wood Sandpiper. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 198. 



Totanus Glarcola. Bonap. Comp. List, 51. 



Tail doubly emarginate, white, all the feathers barred to 

 the base with blackish-brown, the outermost feather with the 

 inner web plain; upper part of head greyish-brown; back, 

 scapulars, and inner secondaries dark purplish-brown, with 

 marginal whitish and dusky sjwts ; neck greyish-white, with 

 longitudinal dusky lines; the breast and abdomen white; 

 lower wing-coverts dusky, edged with white; a xillar feathers 

 and some of those of the sides narrowly and irregularly barred 

 with brown; bill dusky, greenish at the base; feet greenish- 

 grey. 



Male. — This species is of a still more slender form than 

 the last, to which it is considerably inferior in size, and has 

 the legs proportionally longer. It is so intimately allied, 

 however, both in form and in colour, to that species, that a 

 careless observer is very apt to confound the two; and I 

 have seen them misnamed, and even an American species, 

 Totanus chloropygius, mistaken for them. The bill is 

 straight, very slender, with the nasal groove extending 

 beyond the middle ; the tip of the upper mandible a little 

 declinate, that of the lower straight. The legs are long and 



