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ties, and throughout Europe are subject to periodical migra- 

 tion. Their flight is strong, and they run with considerable 

 rapidity. 



DUSKY SANDPIPER. 



TOTANUS FUSCUS, Leisl. 



PLATE XV. Fig. 1. 2. 



Totanus fuscus, Leister, Nachtr. zu Bechst. Naturg. Deut. Heft. 1. 47. 



No. 2 Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 639 Shaw's Zool. 12. 132 Flem. 



Br. Anini. I. 102. 138. 

 Chevalier Noir, Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 493. 

 Chevalier Arlequin, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 630. 

 Dusky Sandpiper, Shaw's Zool. 12. 132. 



Totanus fuscus, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 212. 



Scolopax fusca, Linn. Syst. 1. 243. 5 Lath. Ind. Ornith. 2. 724. 35 



GmeL Syst. 1. 657. 



Limosa fusca, Briss. Orn. 5. 276. 4. t. 23. f. 2. Summer 



Le Barge brune, Buff. Ois. 5. 508. plumage. 



Dusky Snipe, Lath. Syn. 5. 155. 

 Tringa atra, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 738. 43. 

 Black-headed Snipe, Lath. Syn. Sup. 2. 313. 

 Scolopax Cantabrigiensis, Gmel. Syst. 1. 688. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 721. 23.^ 

 Cambridge Godwit,Br. Zool. 2. 185. Lath. Syn. 5. 146. 16. Mont. Orn. I 



Diet Bewick's Br. Birds, 2. 84. > Winter 



Scolopax Curonica, Gmel. Syst. 1. 669 Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 724. 37. I plumage. 



Courland Snipe, Lath. Syn. Sup. 2. 310. J 



Scolopax Totanus, GmeL Syst. 1. 655. 12 Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 721.24. 



Totanus alter, Ran Syn. 106. 11 Will. (Angl.) 297 Barker, Albin. 



2. t. 71. 



Spotted Snipe, Lath. Syn. 2. 148. 19 Lewin's Br. Birds, t. 164 Mont. 



Orn. Diet. 2. and Sup. with a fig. 

 Spotted Redshank, Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. No. 186 Bewick's Br. Birds, 



ed. 1826. pL tab. 69. 



THE difference of plumage between the young and mature 

 bird in this species, and the peculiar change annually under- 

 gone previous to the pairing season, have occasioned great 

 perplexity in discriminating it under such various garbs, and 

 given rise to the long list of synonyms above quoted. This 

 is a rare species in Britain, and the specimens taken are ge- 

 nerally birds of the year (that is, the young previous to the 

 first moulting), or old birds in their winter dress. MON- 

 TAGU describes two, both in the young state, under the title 

 of the Spotted Snipe, and has given a correct figure of one 



Synonyms 

 of Young. 



