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Culbianco, It. The figure of this bird is tolerably good, but the per- 

 spective of the ground it stands upon is out altogether. It is repre- 

 sented on the same plate with its close ally, the 



Wood Sandpiper, Totanus glareola, Temm. — Le Chevalier syl- 

 vain, Fr. — Wald Strandlaiifer, G. The Green Sandpiper certainly 

 breeds with us, at least occasionally, and probably more frequently 

 than is suspected. It has been observed in Wales during the sum- 

 mer, frequenting the small mountain streams in the neighbourhood of 

 Snowdon and elsewhere ; but we are not aware that its nest has actu- 

 ally been found. It is one of our autumnal visitors, and gives pre- 

 ference to secluded ponds, rivulets, and marshy places, instead of the 

 mouths of rivers or the sea-beach, to which most other members of 

 the family resort. Its range of habitat is very extensive : it is " dis- 

 persed over the whole of Europe, the greater part of Asia and Afri- 

 ca, but is not found in America, its place there being supplied by a 

 totally distinct species," viz. Totanus chloropygius. — " It differs 

 from the Wood Sandpiper in its large size, its shorter tarsi, and in 

 the more diminutive spotting of the upper surface." — *' The Wood 

 Sandpiper is still more rarely seen in the British Islands than its near 

 ally, but in every other particular the history of the preceding species 

 is applicable to the present. It is, however, even more widely dis- 

 persed, as is proved by its being found not only ever the whole of the 

 Asiatic continent, but in most of the islands of the Pacific Ocean also, 

 which we believe is not the case with the Green Sandpiper." The 

 Tringa solitaria of Wilson, a native of the United States, differs 

 from the present species only in having the two middle tail-feathers 

 of a uniform brown tint ; while in the T. glareola they are alter- 

 nately barred with brown and white. 



Gorget Warbler, Calliope Lathami, Gould — La Calliope, Fr. 

 A lovely drawing of the male and female of this rare and elegant 

 species of Warbler, which Mr. Gould regards as the type of a dis- 

 tinct genus, to which he has given the title Calliope. — " Among the 

 sub-divisions into which the Sylviadce are now distributed, we do not 

 find one," he observes, " to which we can strictly refer the present 

 beautiful bird : we have, therefore, ventured to form a new genus for 

 its reception, taking the specific designation of Pallas for its generic 

 designation. We cannot perceive its immediate relationship to the 

 Accentors, to which M. Temminck has referred it. Both Gmelin 

 .Hid Latham have considered it to be a Thrush, (Turthis) ; but 

 although Dot ranging with any established genus of that family, its 

 form is very similar to sonic of the smaller species of that group. In 



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