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ACTITIS HYPOLEUCOS. THE WHITE-BREASTED 

 WEET-WEET. 



COMMON SANDPIPER. WILLYWICKET. WATER JUNKET. FIDDLER. 



Fio. 29. 



Tringa Hypolcucos. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 250. 

 Tringa Hypolcucos. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 734. 

 Common Sandpiper. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Chevalier Guignette. Totanus hypolcucos. Temm. Man. d'Orn. II. 657. 

 Totanus Hypolcucos. Common Sandpiper. Flem. Brit. Anim. 104. 

 Common Sandpiper. Totanus Hypoleucos. Selb. Illustr. II. 81. 

 Totanus Hypolcucos. Common Sandpiper. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 199. 

 Actitis Hypoleucos. Bonap. Comp. List, 51. 



The bill dusky; the feet greenish-grey ; upper parts glossy 

 greenish-brown, transversely banded and undulated with dark 

 brown; lower parts tvliite, excepting the fore part and sides of 

 neck, which are greyish, with faint dusky lines. Young with 

 the upper jxirts lighter, the feathers margined with dusky and 

 reddish; the feet ochraceous. 



Male. — This delicate and lively little bird, which in size 

 6carcely exceeds the Dunlin, exhibits in its form the usual 

 characters of the genus, its body being rather slender, its 



