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SCOLOPACID.E. 



GRALLATORES. 



SCOLOPACIDJE. 



THE SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 



Tringa macularia, Spotted Sandpiper, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 79. 



Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Suppt. 



To 



macularins 



maculariu, Chevalier perle. 



Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 105. 

 Flem. Brit. An. p. 103. 

 Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 84. 

 Jenvns, Brit. Vert. p. 199. 

 Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. viii. 

 Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 656. 



The Spotted Sandpiper has liitlierto been included in 

 our catalogues and histories of British Birds, on the authority 

 of Edwards and Bewick ; but believing with Mr. Selby, the 

 Rev. Mr. Jenyns, and others, that the birds from which Ed- 

 wards and Bewick drew their representations, were only spe- 

 cimens of our Common Sandpiper, Totanus hi/poleucos, the 

 species last described, I had intended not to have included 

 the Totanus macularius in the present work. It will be re- 



