THK WOOD-SANDPIPER, 101 



nns TOT AM x fed**, 



742. TOTANUS GLAREOLA. 



Till: \YOOn-SANPPIPF.K. 



Tringa glareola, ('w. ,Vys/. Xut. i. p. <77. Actitis glareola, .fr>v/. />. /??,/. ii. 

 p. u7: />/. R.lhirm. p. 1 >>">: Armrtrony. -v. 7-'. iv. p. .SH. Totanus glareola, 

 - ,/. r<v. flc.rw. p. :^J7: B 

 p. 4(>4 : 7>;v.v> \ iii. p. 1 4.'>, pi. : .1 //</>. I'mmm K,pctL p. 



Rhyacophila glareola, .ffwww ^ /; vi. 



R vii. p. .SO.S ; 7/>/?m\ tf. 7-; vii. p. 4>-. viii. p. m : Bingham, 

 ix. p. 107 : Ort/Ys. ^V. F. x. p. LMO. 



ription. Winter plumage. The upper plumage dark browu, the 

 crown and hind nook with a fow 1'nlvons-whito streaks ; the win^-coverts, 

 baok. s.-apular.x and tertiaries with white and u each feather; 



rump blackish margined with whitish ; upper tail-oo\ orta white ; tail barred 

 with black and white ; primaries and secondaries dark brown, the tips of 

 the latter narrowly white ; a supercilium from the bill to the end of the 

 ear-coverts dull white ; lores brown ; chin white ; sides of the head and 

 neck, the throat, foro neck and breast dull white streaked with brown ; 

 remainder oHo^er plumage white, the under tail-coverts and the sides of 

 the body sparingly barred with brown, the former sometimes with only a 

 IOM - 



I '/miner the upper plumage is blotched with black, and the pale streaks 

 on the head are larger and more frequent ; but the general character of 

 1 oration is not much altered. 



I half of bill olive-brown, terminal half black; iris brown; legs 

 and foot pale greenish : claws dark horn-colour. 



Length 9 inches, tail 2'1, wing 5, tarsus T5, bill from gape 1'3. The 



of the same B 



This and the prooodi B not likely to be confounded; but it 



may be well to point out characters by which they maybe easily rooogn:. 

 should a doubt occur. He1inlru,ntts ochropm is larger, the black bars on 

 the tail arc much wider than the \\\\. I, and the axillaries arc dark 



bro\ui with narrow white bars. T. glareola is smaller, the black and white 



..il arc of about equal width, and the axilL 

 white distantly barred with bro\ui. 



Tlu x andpipv'. rally distributed throughout the Province 



in the winter months, but it is not anywhere abundant. 



. curs throughout :mg in the , 



.tinent down to Cochin China, the M .unsula and archipelago, 



and the Philippines. In summer it retires to northern clim;. 

 some t\ \\ biida 



Th> >>th marshes and the banks of st. ..nd is 



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