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SOLITARY SANDPIPER. 



This species is about the same size as the Wood-Sandpiper, but 

 its upper parts are even less spotted than those of the Green Sand- 

 piper ; the tail-coverts and central pair of rectrices are chiefly olive- 

 brown, with only minute flecks of white, while all the remaining 

 tail-feathers are boldly barred with black and white on both webs ; 

 the head, neck and under-parts are much the same as in the 

 Common Sandpiper ; the axillaries are barred angularly with black 

 and white in nearly equal proportions. Length 8"2 5 in. ; wing 5-2 in. 

 Its nearest ally is our Green Sandpiper, and, like that species, it has 

 only one large notch on each side of the posterior margin of the 

 sternum. An illustration is not considered necessary, inasmuch as 

 the distinctive characteristics could hardly be shown therein. 



In the following vignette the upper figures represent, respectively, 

 a feather from the axiJlaries and one from the middle of the tail of 

 the \\'ood-Sandpiper, while below them are corresponding feathers 

 from the Green Sandpiper. The axillaries of the Solitary Sandpiper 

 resemble those of the Green Sandpiper in pattern, but the white bars 

 are much broader. 



