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SCOLOPACID^. 



patch by a baud of buff; the other markings of the upper 

 parts resemble those in the Green Sandpiper, but the ground- 

 colour is more buff ; the under parts buffy-white. 



A specimen of the American Solitary Sandpiper {Totanus 

 soUtarius) is said by Mr. R. Gray (Ibis, 1870, p. 292, and 

 B. of W. of Scot. p. 296) to have been shot some years ago, 

 somewhere on the banks of the Clyde. More recently Mr. 

 T. Cornish has stated (Zool. 1882, p. 432) that an example 

 was obtained at Scilly on the 21st September of that year, 

 and is now in the collection of Mr. Dorien Smith of Tresco. 

 In reply to inquiries, Mr. Cornish informed the Editor that 

 this specimen was identified from the plate and descrip- 

 tion in Wilson's 'Ornithology,' and not from comparison 

 with an American skin. This Nearctic representative of our 

 Wood Sandpiper differs from the latter in having the upper 

 tail-coverts of an olive-brown colour, the shaft of the outer 

 primary is dusky, not white, and the outer tail-feathers dis- 

 tinctly barred on both webs. 



Beneath are representations of a feather from the axillary 

 plume and one from the middle of the tail in the Wood 

 Sandpiper. 



