SOLITARY SANDPIPER 339 
the outer one, dusky (cf. that of the Wood-Sandpiper) ; 
axillaries, smoke-black, with narrow angular lines of white 
(Plate XXXV.); central tail-feathers, white at their basal 
portions, and broadly barred with black near their ends ; 
lateral tail-feathers, tipped with a few black spots, the outer 
pair being pure white; cheek, sides of neck, and middle 
of upper breast, whitish with brownish streaks; sides of 
breast, greyish-brown; chin, front of neck, abdomen, and 
under tail-coverts, white. 
Adult female nuptial—sSimilar to the male plumage, but 
the markings are less pronounced. 
Adult winter, male and female.—The back and wings 
are more finely spotted with white, and the neck is much 
whiter than in the nuptial plumage. 
Immature, male and jfemale.— Resembles the adult 
winter-plumage, but the feathers of the back, the 
scapulars, and wing-coverts exhibit only a faint gloss, are 
not so spotted as in the adult, and are margined with 
hght yellowish-bronze. 
Beak. Blackish-brown. 
FEET. Dull green. 
Irives. Blackish-brown. 
AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 
ToTAL LENGTH Oe. We 
WING 5a, 
BEAK ee ees 
TARSO-METATARSUS eon 
Kee ia) SIP time 
SOLITARY SANDPIPER. Totanus solitarius (Wilson). 
Coloured Figures.—Dresser, ‘ Birds of Europe,’ vol. ix, pl. 714; 
Lilford, ‘ Coloured Figures,’ vol. v, pl. 48. 
There are but three British occurrences recorded of this 
very rare American visitor. One from Scotland, a bird 
taken on the banks of the Clyde, ‘‘ some years ago” (R. 
Gray, ‘Ibis, 1870, p. 292); another from the Scilly Isles, 
obtained September 21st, 1882; the third was procured 
