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ACTITIS MACULARIA. THE SPOTTED WEET- 

 WEET. 



spotted sandpiper. 



Tringa macularia. Lath. Ind. Om. II. 734. 



Spotted Sandpiper. Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Chevalier Perle. Totanus macularia. Tenim. Man. d'Ornith. II. 656. 



Spotted Sandpiper. Totanus macularius. Selb. Illustr. II. 84. 



Totanus Macularia. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 199. 



Actitis macularius. Bonap. Comp. List. 51. 



The bill dusky at the point, greenish-brown above, yellow 

 beneath; upper parts glossy greenish-brown, the head longi- 

 tudinally streaked, the rest transversely banded with dark 

 brown; lower parts white, marked all over with roundish 

 dusky sjwts. Young icith the upper parts lighter ; the feathers 

 of the head margined with dusky ; the back and icings icith 

 more numerous dusky bars; the lower parts brownish- white, 

 unspotted. 



Male. — This beautiful species is a little smaller than the 

 White-bellied, which it precisely resembles in form, as well 

 as in the general tint of its upper parts ; but from which it 

 is readily distinguishable on account of the spots on its 

 lower surface. The bill is in length and form almost exactly 

 the same as that of the species just named, being scarcely 

 longer than the head, straight, slender, compressed, laterally 

 grooved on the upper mandible for two-thirds of its length, 

 on the lower for one-half, soft and flexible. The eyes are of 

 moderate size ; the nostrils linear, pervious, two-and-a-half- 

 twelfths of an inch long. The tibia is bare for four-twelfths 

 of an inch ; the tarsus has thirty anterior and about the 

 same number of posterior scutella. The hind toe is very 



