374 TEN YEAKS IN SWEDEN. 



Length 8- in. ; beak shorter than tarsus, which is 

 1 in. 4 1. long ; the shaft of the first primary is white, 

 the following white only on the under side ; colour of 

 the under wing light ; tail white, with deep, well de- 

 fined brown transverse bands on all the feathers ; axil- 

 lary plume not regularly barred, as in the last, but 

 covered with largish brown spots ; legs all greenish ; 

 upper parts deep brown, spotted with white; under 

 parts and rump white, but not nearly so conspicuous 

 as in the last. 



More common and much more widely dispersed over 

 Scandinavia than the last, from Scania right up into Lap- 

 land; breeds always on small open mosses, but often far 

 away from the forests ; four eggs, generally laid under a 

 small bush of bog myrtle, etc. They are not nearly so large 

 as those of the last, much darker coloured, and the spots 

 much larger and deeper. 



This bird has a very pretty little call note, it can hardly 

 be called a song, during the breeding season. In habits it 

 more resembles the redshank than the last. 



197. T. HYPOLEUCOS, Tern. Drill Sniippa. The Common 



Sandpiper. D. F. 



Length about 8 in. ; beak 1 in. ; tarsus 7 1. ; all the 

 upper parts cinereous brown, with an olive gloss ; shafts 

 of all the primaries brown ; under parts white ; rump 

 the same colour as the back (not white), and this will 

 distinguish it at a glance from the others. 

 The commonest of all the Scandinavian sandpipers during 

 the summer from Scania up to the North Cape. 



The spotted sandpiper (T. Macularius, Tern.), the 

 T. Semipalmatus, Tern. (American willet), and the marsh 

 sandpiper, (T. Stagnatilis, Bechst.), are supposed to have 

 occurred in Sweden, but are not sufficiently authenticated to 

 warrant their being placed in the Scandinavian fauna. 



Gen. Machetes, Cuv. 



Although possessing many characters in common with 

 the last genus, totanus } as they have also some of the charac- 



