664 SCOLOPACID^E. 



feathers are longer ; in the tail five feathers on each side 

 have white tips, and only one feather on each outside of the 

 tail has the outer web white, barred with greenish black ; 

 the chin white ; the throat, neck, breast, and all the under 

 parts, even to the ends of the under tail-coverts white, but 

 ornamented with numerous well-defined round spots of 

 dusky greenish brown ; the legs and toes flesh colour ; the 

 claws brown. 



The whole length is about six inches and three-quarters. 

 From the carpal joint to the end of the wing, four inches ; 

 the first quill-feather the longest in the wing. 



The whole length measurement assigned by M. Tem- 

 minck, in his Manual for Totanus hypoleucos, is seven 

 inches three lines, French ; that for Totanus macularius y 

 eight inches, French ; surely this last must be a misprint. 

 I have never seen a specimen of T. macularius that ap- 

 proached to eight inches, and all authors agree that J 7 . 

 hypoleucos is the larger bird of the two. 



The young chicks on leaving the shell are covered with 

 down of a dull drab colour, marked with a single streak 

 of black down the middle of the back, and with another 

 behind the ear. 



M. Temminck, in the fourth Part of his Manual, page 

 418, says, " The young of the year of this species are 

 easily distinguished from those of the Common Sandpiper, 

 because the under parts always bear some indications 

 of the brown oval-shaped spots disposed over the breast 

 and belly, notwithstanding these spots do not appear till 

 the winter season ; in the early part of autumn the under 

 parts are wholly white." 



This Spotted Sandpiper, Totanus macularius, of Tem- 

 minck, must not be confounded with the Totanus macu- 

 latus of Bechstein, which is only another name for our 

 Spotted Redshank, figured at page 624. 



