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erally seen singly, or in small companies, along the river banks, in 

 boggy meadows, and about the pools on the commons; sometimes 

 within city limits. rGoo I 



Fig. 83.— Head and foot of Greater Tattler. 



182. (175.) Totanus flavipes (Utii.) J "u ill. Lesser Tattler; "Yellow-shanks." 

 With the preceding, under identical circumstances. [634J 



183. (170.) Rhyacophilus solitarius ( Wils.) Bp. Solitary Sandpiper. 



A spring and autumn migrant; abundant, especially during the 

 vernal passage. In spring, from May 1 to the 15th; in the tall, from 

 August 25 to the 15th of October. It is usually seen in small Hocks at 

 both seasons, and is easily taken, being gentle and unsuspicious. We 

 always found them, during the periods indicated, in pools and ditches 

 of the commons north of the city, and sometimes in rain-puddles in the 



Fig. 84.— Bill of Solitary Sandpiper, uat. size. 



woods. Occasionally, late in the summer, we took birds so young as to 

 lead us to suppose they had been hatched in the vicinity. Of this, 

 however, we have no assurance, the breeding of the Solitary Sandpiper 

 being one of those things which are yet to be discovered.* [037 J 



184. (177.) Tringoides macularius (Linn.) Gray. Spotted Sandpiper; "Peet- 

 weet;" "Tip-up;" "Teeter-tail;" "Sand-snipe." 



A summer resident, A r ery abundant, especially during the vernal mi- 

 gration, and the only member of the family known to breed in the Dis- 

 trict. It arrives the 20th of April and remains through the greater 

 part of September. You will always see it winging along the banks of 



* While at Blacksburg, Va., in tlie western mountainous part of tlic State, late in 

 May, 1883, Dr. Coues observed a pair of Solitary Sandpipers which seemed to have 

 mated and settled for the summer; but he was obliged fco leave without assuring 

 himself that they bred there. The locality is one in which Junco hiemalis is known to 

 breed. 



