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264. ToTANus GLAREOLA (Linn.). Wood-Sandpiper. 



This Sandpiper ranges throughout Egypt and Nubia, 

 where it is, properly speaking, only a winter visitant, though, 

 according to Von Heuglin (Syst. Ueb. p. 62), a few remain 

 in the country throughout the year. In its visits it appears 

 to be somewhat irregular ; for although in 1870 and 1871 I 

 found it one of the most abundant of the wading birds in 

 Lower Egypt and the Fayoom, and also shot several in Nubia, 

 in 1868 I did not fall in with it once, to my knowledge, above 

 Cairo, and Mr. E. C. Taylor also found it rare during his 

 visits. 



Upper parts dusky olive, with the feathers edged or par- 

 tially barred with white or brownish white ; rump and tail 

 white, the latter barred with black ; underparts white, spotted 

 with dusky on the cheeks and neck, and barred with that 

 colour on the sides of the crop, flanks, and under tail-coverts ; 

 beak olive ; legs pale yellowish green ; irides dark brown. 



Entire length 7"5 inches; cuhnen TS ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 4"9 ; tarsus \h. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 815. 



265. AcTiTis HYPOLEUCOs (Linn.). Common Sandpiipcr. 



This species is a resident in the country and ranges through- 

 out Egypt and Nubia, where it is very abundant and evenly 

 distributed. It prefers the banks of the river and canals, 

 where it is generally met with singly. 



Upper plumage bronzy green, feathers more or less streaked 

 and burred with dusky ; quills dusky, with a white patch on 



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