6GO SCOLOPACmaE. 



ORALLATORES. SCOLOPACJDJS. 



THE SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 



Totanus macularius. 



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



, MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet, and Suppl. 



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



Totanus , FLEM. Brit. An. p. 103. 



macularius, , SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 84. 



, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 199. 



, GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



macularia, Chevalier perle, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 656. 



THE SPOTTED SANDPIPER has hitherto been included 

 in our catalogues arid 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 Edwards and Bewick drew their represen- 

 tations, were only specimens of our Common Sandpiper, 

 Totanus hypoleucos, the species last described, I had in- 

 tended not to have included the Totanus macularius in the 



