220 SPOTTED TOTANUS. 



the west. It was shot (about the 26th September, 

 1839) between Renton and Sherringham, on the 

 north coast of Norfolk, in company with a flock of 

 Common Sandpipers, five or six of which came 

 into my hands with it."* 



There is no instance, on record, of specimens 

 being found either in Scotland or Ireland, and in 

 Europe it is rare. North America is its proper 

 locality, where it represents our T. hypdeucm, and 

 by Bonaparte it is entered as " accidental" in 

 Europe, showing the true state of its range. We 

 possess specimens in the plumage of the winter 

 and young state, from the island of Tobago. 



The Spotted Sandpiper is slightly less in its pro- 

 portions than the last, the bill also rather shorter, 

 but stronger towards the base, and of a more 

 yellowish tint. In the breeding plumage the upper 

 parts are hair-brown, having a greener tint than 

 in T. hypoleucuS) but showing the same shining 

 lustre on the head and neck ; each feather is 

 marked with a darker streak in the centre, and 

 on the back, wings, and long tertials, the shafts 

 appear as lines, and each feather is crossed by one 

 or more dark irregular bands, running to a point 

 in the centre upon the shaft ; the under parts are 

 entirely pure white, each feather near the tip 

 being marked with an almost round spot of dark 

 hair-brown, whence the name has been taken ; 

 axillary feathers white ; the tail is entirely hair- 

 brown, all the feathers slightly tipped with white, 

 * Quoted from Yarrell, 



