332 CHARADRIIDAs 
instead of having the inner secondaries for the most part 
white,” as they are in the Common Sandpiper. 
Brak. Upper segment, greenish; lower segment, dull 
yellow. 
Fret. Yellowish-pink. 
Irives. Hazel. 
Kees. Light yellowish-brown, with dark brown and 
greyish blotches: clutch, four. 
AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 
TOTAL LENGTH 
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WOOD-SANDPIPER. Totanus glareola (J. F. Gmelin). 
Colowred Figures.—Gould, ‘ Birds of Great Britain,’ vol. iv, 
pl. 57; Dresser, ‘Birds of Europe,’ vol. viii, pl. 565; 
Lilford, ‘ Coloured Figures,’ vol. v, pl. 47. 
The distribution of the Wood-Sandpiper in our Isles is 
chiefly along the east and south coast of England, where 
single individuals or small parties annually migrate in 
autumn, and more sparingly in spring. It has also been 
observed about inland marshy districts, but 1s seldom met 
with along the west side of England or in Wales. In spring, 
this Sandpiper has reached the shores of Cornwall as early 
as April 15th. 
In Scotland, it has visited Mid- and East Lothian, 
Aberdeenshire, as well as the west side, in the vicinity of the 
Clyde and Loch Lomond (Saunders). 
In Ireland, it is very rare, having occurred only on a few 
occasions as an autumn-migrant. The first record is that 
of a bird shot on Calary Bog, co. Wicklow, by Mr. Smith 
Cregan, on August 23rd, 1885, and presented to the Dublin 
Museum by the Rev. Dr. Benson (Ussher, ‘ Birds of Ire- 
land,’ p. 296). On August Ist, 1896, Dr. E. Blake Knox 
noticed three on the same bog, one of which he procured 
(fig. 45, p. 333): two days later (August 3rd), he shot a 
