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mottled witli white and brown; throat, ashy, shading into olive on 

 the sides of the breast; a faint superciliary line of dull white touch- 

 ing the eyelid; abdomen and crissum, white; secondaries tipped, 

 and inner primaries spotted with white; lower mandible, greenish, 

 becoming dark at the end. 



Length 7.10, wing 3.75, tail 2.05, tarsus .94, bill i. 



The Spotted Sandpiper appears to be a rather scarce resident 

 in the Bahamas. But three specimens were taken, — a solitary indi- 

 vidual at Andros Island, Jan. 9, 1S79, and two near Bud Rock, 

 Acklin Island, in May of the same year. It is possible that the 

 latter specimens were migrating from some of the more southern 

 islands, and had merely touched at the Bahamas on their way north, 

 in which case it could only be considered as a winter visitant. 



Fig. And. Bds. N. A., Vol. V. pi. 342. 



