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under wing coverts and axillaries blackish brown, narrowly barred 

 with white. 



ACTITIS HYPOLEUCOS (Linnaeus) 



Common Sandpiper 



[T ringa] Hypoleucos Linnaeus, Systerua naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 149 



(Europe ; type locality restricted to Sweden, apud Hartert.) . 

 Tringoides hypoleucos, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1913, 



p. 69 ("Northern Siam") ; Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 1915, p. 236 (listed) ; 



Ibis, 1920, p. 759 ("Throughout the whole country"). 

 Tringa hypoleuca, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 586 



(Chiang Mai.) 

 Tringa hypoleucos, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 172 



(Chiang Mai). — de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1934, 



p. 279 (Chiang Mai). 

 Actitis hypoleucos, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1936, p. 83 



(Chiang Mai).— Riley, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 91 (Nan). 



This is a very common winter visitor throughout the North. At 

 Chiang Mai I recorded it from August 1 (1931) to April 3 (1931). 

 Eisenhofer sent to Stockholm eight specimens from Khun Tan. I 

 collected it at Chiang Mai, Mae Sariang, Thattafang, Chom Thong, 

 and Chiang Saen Kao and have seen it almost everywhere in the low- 

 lands. 



The common sandpiper is well named, for it is found wherever 

 there is water — in the ricefields, along streams, large and small, at 

 village ponds, and in roadside ditches ; it even ascends the mountains 

 for some distance along the torrents. 



This is an unmistakable little bird : in flight it may be known by its 

 shrill peet-weet, peet-weet, and the peculiarly jerky action of its white- 

 barred wings; at other times, whether walking or standing, it con- 

 stantly bobs the hinder portion of its body up and down. 



It has the upperparts brown, washed with oily olive-green, many 

 of the feathers faintly barred darker and narrowly tipped whitish; 

 the underparts white, more or less sullied with brown on the lower 

 neck and breast ; a conspicuous white bar in the outspread wing. 



EROLIA TEMMINCKII (Leisler) 



Temminck's Stint 



Tringa Temminckii Leisler, Nachtrage zu Bechsteins Naturgeschichte Deutsch- 



lands, 1812, pp. 64-73 (Hanau-am-Main, Germany). 

 Erolia minuta ruficollis, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, 



p. 586 (Chiang Saen Kao). 

 Erolia temminckii, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 172 



(Chiang Mai). — de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1934, 



p. 279 (Chiang Mai). 

 Pisobia temminckii, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1936, p. 84 



(Chiang Mai).— Riley, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 193S, p. 95 (Chom Thong). 



